Discuss the legal and ethical issues that may arise with the care of this patient during diagnosis, ongoing treatment and follow-up.

A 43-year – old mother of three comes to a physician’s office with suspected breast cancer. Because sheislocated in a rural area with limited tertiary care, telemedicine is used to manage her diagnosis and treatment.

Discuss the legal and ethical issues that may arise with the care of this patient during diagnosis, ongoing treatment and follow-up.

Assume that the best consultants for this type of ccancer in a different state. How will you decide whom the film should go to?

Be sure to address the issues such as legal and ethical issues associated with the use of telemedicine. These issues include privacy, confidentiality, licensure requirement and electronic signature use.

Thus, you should incorporate into your final report

a discussion of what legal issues might arise as a result of implementing the telemedicine system

you have designed (teleradiology):

How will you address these issues?

Can the problems be solved locally, or will new/revised state or federal policy be necessary?

What limitations are imposed on your system because of existing(nonexisting) laws