22 Dec 2020 - 9:25
Healthcare professionals and legal experts participated in WCM-Q’s Intersection of Law and Medicine event to discuss the legal implications of the boom in telemedicine sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Peninsula
Doha: The legal implications of the dramatic rise in the use of telemedicine during the global COVID-19 pandemic were discussed at the latest installment of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s (WCM-Q) Intersection of Law and Medicine series.
With physical distancing measures in place in many countries to limit the spread of the virus, telemedicine underwent several years’ worth of development in just a few weeks as healthcare professionals switched from in-person to virtual appointments.