NJ S1935

Telehealth providers must make a good faith effort to directly contact and coordinate with emergency services when a patient needs emergency care, including providing the patient's name, location, and contact information in oral and written form.

Providers must maintain written emergency care plans covering areas where patients are located during telehealth visits, including standards and protocols for activating local emergency services.

Telehealth providers are required to report suicide attempts during encounters to the Department of Health in compliance with privacy laws and must document all emergencies that occur during visits.

State professional licensing boards must adopt rules establishing requirements for emergency care plans, including coordination protocols with emergency service providers in patients' locations.

Providers must make good faith efforts to determine a patient's location if the patient is unaware of where they are during a telehealth encounter.