Protecting the public interest when regulating health professionals providing virtual care: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for health profession regulators have included providing practice guidance for virtual care, changing entry-to-practice requirements to include digital competencies, facilitating interjurisdictional virtual care through licensure and liability insurance requirements, and adapting disciplinary procedures. This scoping review will examine the literature on how the public interest is protected when regulating health professionals providing virtual car

SUBMITTER: Leslie K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9986861 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature