Risk 144

Course overview

*Discuss the public's increased use of health data-gathering devices and its effect on dispensing healthcare by professional healthcare providers. *Identify sources for state authority to regulate the practice of healthcare in the various states. *Explain states' prohibition against the unauthorized practice of medicine and identify points where data collection and subsequent evaluation may encounter this prohibition. *Compare courts' interpretations of state scopes of practice laws as they relate to the various stages of a doctor-patient encounter. *Distinguish data collection from activities that may include preliminary evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment - while identifying their relevance to state scopes of practice. *Analyze how courts interpret activities that may constitute the unauthorized practice of medicine, as distinguished from those that do not. *Discuss obligations to refer people to other healthcare providers based upon determinations and/or diagnoses related to observation, examination, and evaluation of collected data. *Distinguish boundaries regarding data collection versus the unauthorized practice of medicine. *Recognize the public's rights to information and free speech protections.