Healing arts: telehealth.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. A violation of specified provisions is a crime. Existing law defines telehealth for the purpose of its regulation and requires a health care provider, as defined, prior to the delivery of health care via telehealth, to verbally inform the patient that telehealth may be used and obtain verbal consent from the patient and to document that verbal consent in the patient's medical record. This bill would alternatively allow a health care provider to obtain written consent from the patient before telehealth may be used and would require that written consent to be documented in the patient's medical record.