Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1710

Requiring and providing for commissioner of health grants to hospitals or
existing networks for the establishment and maintenance of a Minnesota
telemedicine network as an interoperable linkage between hospitals, specifying a
certain grant preference; requiring the commissioner in consultation with the
office of technology to adopt internationally approved standards for operation
of the network for use by the grantees; authorizing the commissioner to
establish an advisory council to assist in awarding the grants and establishing
and monitoring the network; defining telemedicine and health records for access
purposes; authorizing licensed out of state physicians to provide medical
services to Minnesota patients through interstate telemedicine under certain
conditions, requiring annual registration with the board of medical practice,
exceptions; providing medical assistance (MA) coverage for services delivered by
means of telemedicine; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for the
grants and to the commissioner of human services for the medical assistance
coverage (mk)