18 Del. Admin. Code § 1409-2.0
The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Distant site" means a site at which a health care provider legally allowed to practice in the state is located while providing health care services by means of telehealth.
"Originating site" means a site in Delaware at which a patient is located at the time health care services are provided to the patient by means of telemedicine or telehealth, unless the term is otherwise defined with respect to the provision in which it is used. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, insurers and providers may agree to alternative siting arrangements deemed appropriate by the parties.
"Store and forward transfer" means the synchronous or asynchronous transmission of a patient's medical information either to or from an originating site or to or from the provider at the distant site, but does not require the patient being present nor must it be in real time, as set forth in 24 Del.C. § 6001 (4).
"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies consisting of telephones, remote patient monitoring devices or other electronic means which support clinical health care, health-care provider consultation, patient and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services as authorized in 24 Del.C. Ch. 60.
"Telemedicine" is a subset of telehealth which is the delivery of clinical health-care services and other services, as authorized in 24 Del.C. Ch. 60, by means of real time 2-way audio, visual, or other telecommunications or electronic communications, including the application of secure video conferencing or store and forward transfer technology to provide or support health-care delivery, which facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management and self-management of a patient's health-care by a health-care provider legally allowed to practice in the state and practicing within the health-care provider's scope of practice as would be practiced in-person with a patient, while such patient is at an originating site and the health-care provider is at a distant site.
18 Del. Admin. Code § 1409-2.0
25 DE Reg. 285 (9/1/2021) (Final)