American Telemedicine Association Says Telerehab Requires a New Look at Ethics

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Disability Support Professionals and organizations offering telerehabilitation services should review their ethics statements to ensure that they address four vital principles identified by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Telerehabiliation services include a range of rehabilitation and habilitation activities, including assessment, monitoring, prevention, intervention, supervision, education, consultation, and counseling. The ATA is urging organizations to review their ethics statements because services are delivered to children and adults in medical and non-medical settings by a broad range of professionals and may involve paraprofessionals and non-professionals who facilitate the provision of services. The ATA recommends that . . .