New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 42B - BOARD OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYST EXAMINERS RULES
Subchapter 7 - TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH
Section 13:42B-7.2 - 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 and/or mental health 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 State Board of Applied Behavior Analyst Examiners.
"Cross-coverage service" means a licensee who 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 services by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Licensee" means an individual licensed by the Board as a licensed applied behavior analyst or licensed assistant applied behavior analyst.
"On-call" means a licensee is available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of a client for whom the licensee has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the client's primary care provider or other mental health care provider of record.
"Originating site" means a site at which a client is located at the time that services are provided to the client by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies, including telephones, remote client monitoring devices, or other electronic means, to support clinical health care, provider consultation, client and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services in accordance with the provisions at P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61 et seq.).
"Telemedicine" means the delivery of a health care service using electronic communications, information technology, or other electronic or technological means to bridge the gap between a 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 at P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61 et seq.). "Telemedicine" does not include the use, in isolation, of audio-only telephone conversation, electronic mail, instant messaging, phone text, or facsimile transmission.
