N.J. Admin. Code § 13:35-6B.2
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Asynchronous store-and-forward" means the acquisition and transmission of images, diagnostics, data, and medical information either to, or from, an originating site or to, or from, the licensee at a distant site, which allows for the patient to be evaluated without being physically present.
"Board" means the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners.
"Cross-coverage" means a licensee engages in a remote medical evaluation of a patient, without in-person contact, at the request of another licensee who has established a proper licensee-patient relationship with the patient.
"Distant site" means a site at which a licensee is located while providing health care services by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Licensee" means an individual licensed by the Board as a physician or podiatrist.
"On-call" means a licensee is available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of a patient for whom the licensee has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the patient's primary care licensee or other health care provider of record.
"Originating site" means a site at which a patient is located at the time that health care services are provided to the patient by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Proper licensee-patient relationship" means an association between a licensee and patient wherein the licensee owes a duty to the patient to be available to render professional services consistent with his or her training and experience, which is established pursuant to the requirements of N.J.A.C. 13:35-6B.4.
"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies, including telephones, remote patient monitoring devices, or other electronic means, to support clinical health care, provider consultation, patient and professional health-related education, public health, health administration, and other services in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.).
"Telemedicine" means the delivery of a health care service, including supportive mental health services, using electronic communications, information technology, or other electronic or technological means to bridge the gap between a health care licensee who is located at a distant site and a patient who is located at an originating site, either with or without the assistance of an intervening licensee, and in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 2017, c. 117 (N.J.S.A. 45:1-61et seq.). "Telemedicine" does not include the use, in isolation, of audio-only telephone conversation, electronic mail, instant messaging, phone text, or facsimile transmission.
N.J. Admin. Code § 13:35-6B.2