West Virginia Code of State Rules
Agency 11 - Medicine
Title 11 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF MEDICINE
Series 11-15 - Telehealth and Interstate Telehealth Registration for Physicians, Podiatric Physicians and Physician Assistants
Section 11-15-2 - Definitions

2.1. "Board" means the West Virginia Board of Medicine, established in W. Va. Code § 30-3-5.

2.2. "CSMP" means the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program repository and database.

2.3. "Distant site" means the telehealth site where the health care practitioner is seeing the patient at a distance or consulting with a patient's health care practitioner.

2.4. "Established patient" means a patient who has received professional services, face-to-face, from the physician, qualified health care professional, or another physician or qualified health care professional of the exact same specialty and subspecialty who belongs to the same group practice, within the past three years.

2.5. "Good standing" means a license that:

2.6. "Health care practitioner" or "practitioner" means a physician, podiatric physician or physician assistant.

2.7. "Interstate telehealth registration" or "registration" means an authorization to practice as a physician, podiatric physician or physician assistant for the limited purpose of providing interstate telehealth services within the registrant's scope of practice.

2.8. "Interstate telehealth registrant" or "Registrant" means a physician, podiatric physician or physician assistant issued an interstate telehealth registration by the Board.

2.9. "Interstate telehealth services" means the provision of telehealth services to a patient located in West Virginia by a health care practitioner located in any other state or commonwealth of the United States.

2.10. "Licensee" means:

2.11. "Originating site" means the location where the patient is located, whether or not accompanied by a health care practitioner, at the time services are provided by a health care practitioner through telehealth, including, but not limited to, a health care practitioner's office, hospital, critical access hospital, rural health clinic, federally qualified health center, a patient's home, and other nonmedical environments such as school-based health centers, university-based health centers, or the work location of a patient.

2.12. "Professional license" means a license to practice medicine, podiatric medicine or as a physician assistant in any state or commonwealth of the United States.

2.13. "Telehealth services" means the use of synchronous or asynchronous telecommunications technology or audio only telephone calls by a health care practitioner to provide health care services, including, but not limited to, assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, and monitoring of a patient; transfer of medical data; patient and professional health-related education; public health services; and health administration. The term does not include internet questionnaires, email messages, or facsimile transmissions.

2.14. "Telehealth provider" means a licensee or registrant who provides health care services using telemedicine technologies to patients in West Virginia.

2.15. "Telemedicine technologies" means technologies and devices which enable secure communications and information exchange in the practice of telemedicine, and typically involve the application of secure real-time audio/video conferencing or similar secure video services, remote monitoring or store and forward digital image technology, or audio only telephone calls to provide or support health care delivery by replicating the interaction of a traditional in-person provider and a patient.

2.16. "Website" or "Board's website" means the set of related web pages operated by or on behalf of the West Virginia Board of Medicine located at the domain name wvbom.wv.gov, or at any successor domain name published by the Board.