Nick Beckett discusses telemedicine with Maria González Gordon (CMS Spain), Reemt Matthiesen (CMS Germany) and Valentina Parvu (CMS Romania).  In this episode, we discuss:

• the significant growth and market opportunities that telemedicine and digital health apps present
• how barriers to the take-up of telemedicine have been broken down during COVID-19
• exceptional permitted uses of telemedicine in cases of emergency such as pandemics
• fragmented regulation of telemedicine and digital health apps in different jurisdictions, with the advent of specific regulation in some jurisdictions
• restrictions on the advertising of telemedicine and remote treatments
• how patient data is protected and confidentiality preserved in use in telemedicine