New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 34 - BOARD OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY EXAMINERS
Subchapter 6A - TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH
Section 13:34-6A.2 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Asynchronous store-and-forward" means the acquisition and transmission of images, diagnostics, data, and medical information either to or from an originating site or to or from the licensee at a distant site, which allows for the client to be evaluated without being physically present.
"Board" means the Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners Board.
"Cross-coverage" means a licensee engages in a remote evaluation of a client, without in-person contact, at the request of another licensee who has established a proper licensee-client relationship with the client.
"Distant site" means a site at which a licensee is located while providing marriage and family therapy services by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Licensee" means an individual licensed by the Board.
"On-call" means a licensed marriage and family therapist is available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of a client for whom the licensed marriage and family therapist has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the client's primary care licensed marriage and family therapist or other healthcare provider of record.
"Originating site" means a site at which a client is located at the time that marriage and family therapy services are provided to the client by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Proper licensee-client relationship" means an association between a licensee and client wherein the marriage and family therapist or associate marriage and family therapist owes a duty to the client to be available to render professional services consistent with his or her training and experience, which is established pursuant to the requirements at N.J.A.C. 13:34-6A.4.
"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies, including telephones, remote client monitoring devices, or other electronic means, to support clinical healthcare, provider consultation, client and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.).
"Telemedicine" means the delivery of a healthcare service, including mental health services, using electronic communications, information technology, or other electronic or technological means to bridge the gap between a healthcare licensee who is located at a distant site and a client who is located at an originating site, either with or without the assistance of an intervening licensee, and in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.). "Telemedicine" does not include the use, in isolation, of audio-only telephone conversation, electronic mail, instant messaging, phone text, or facsimile transmission.
