When a clinically trained lawyer and an entrepreneurial telehealth physician sit down to talk about the medical-legal risks of virtual care, there will surely be some interesting stories!
Join Dr. Joe McMenamin and Dr. Tom Davis for an interesting conversation about what the future holds from a medico-legal perspective.
Joe McMenamin,
MD, JD
Principal, McMenamin Law Offices
Digital Health Legal Advisor (Ingenium)
Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin, MD, JD is a physician-attorney and the principal at McMenamin Law Offices, PLLC, a healthcare boutique in Richmond, Virginia concentrating on the law of digital health.
Joe advises institutional and individual telehealth service providers, academic medical centers, remote monitoring services, trade associations, telehealth platform companies, investors, and telecoms on a broad array of medico-legal questions arising from distance care and, more recently, from the application of augmented intelligence to health care in general and to telemedicine in particular. He writes and lectures extensively on these and related topics.
He also serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telehealth Network, and as a member of the Legal Resource Team of CTeL, the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law. He is board-certified in Legal Medicine, an Associate Professor of Legal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.
Tom Davis, MD
Principal & CEO Tom Davis Consulting
Physician Telemedicine Advisor (Ingenium)
Since completing specialty training in telemedicine in 1994, Dr. Tom Davis MD FAAFP has advocated and mentored clinicians and organizations throughout the country.
Emphasizing system development, clinician mentorship, and patient care, Dr. Davis supports clients who understand that telemedicine is a tool which can, when leveraged within well-designed systems, generate phenomenal value for patient, clinician, and organizations alike.
Author of the 2017 Amazon “Hot 100” publication “Telemedicine Confidential — Keeping Your Family Safe”, Dr. Davis advocates for the idea that virtual care delivery is a discipline completely separate from face-to-face care delivery, requiring entirely new skill sets and techniques to be executed with success.