https://doi.org/10.4081/tmi.2023.242
Telemedicine in Italy: an overview on laws and guidelines
Submitted: 24 October 2022
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Published: 10 January 2023
Accepted: 22 November 2022
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Although telemedicine has been known since 1970, in Italy it has never been considered a priority in the healthcare system until the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. In a couple of years, from 2020 to 2022, we assisted to a dramatic increase in the interest for telemedicine at all institutional levels and to a tremendous amount of guidelines and national laws that tried to set a precise framework for the correct implementation of this remote healthcare assistance. In this article, we reported the most important laws and guidelines for telemedicine in Italy.
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Giambelluca, A. (2023). Telemedicine in Italy: an overview on laws and guidelines. TeleMedicine International, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/tmi.2023.242
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