(a) “Distant site” means the telemedicine site where the provider group is providing medical services to a patient at a distance or consulting with a patient's provider remotely.
(b) “Licensure for Telemedicine” means a telemedicine license or any current Virgin Islands physician licensure, including unrestricted, institutional, special restricted and special unrestricted.
(c) “Originating site” means the location of the patient or attending healthcare professional anywhere within the Territory.
(d) “Telemedicine” means the use of medical information exchanged from one distant site to another via electronic communications to improve, maintain, or assist patients’ health status. Videoconferencing, transmission of still images, and e-health including patient centers are all considered part of telemedicine and telehealth.
(e) “Telemedicine services” means specialist referral services, patient consultations, remote patient monitoring, medical education, and consumer medical and health information, that are performed as part of a telemedicine procedure.
(f) “Telemedicine services agreement” means a cooperative agreement within the Territory or between a hospital or licensed physician in the Territory and one outside the Territory for improved health care delivery, including but not limited to tele-stroke/neurology and tele-radiology, in order to decrease patient and physician travel and enhance inter-facility cooperation.