On the recordOctober 16, 2002
I am especially pleased to highlight that the bill authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State professional licensing boards towards developing and implementing State policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers in telehealth or telemedicine. In the past week, I have kicked off a workshop at the Federal Trade Commission with Chairman Muris on just this topic, statutory and regulatory barriers to e-commerce. Furthermore, my Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Trade and Protection has held hearings just on this subject. It is often the case that well-intentioned laws have unintended consequences to commerce and, in this case, to the practice of medicine. I am pleased also to recognize that the University of Florida in my home State has a CHC telehealth project so they are actually implementing a telemedicine program out to the rural areas, and I want to commend them this afternoon for their efforts.
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