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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 10.41.06.02" title_num="10" subtitle_num="41" chapter_num="06" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Asynchronous” means not occurring in real time.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Board” means the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“In-person” means in the physical presence of the patient.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Interpretive services” means reading and analyzing images, tracings, or specimens through telehealth or giving interpretations based on visual, auditory, thermal, or ultrasonic patterns or other patterns as may evolve with technology.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>“Synchronous” means occurring in real time.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Telehealth” has the meaning stated in Health Occupations Article, §1-1001, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Telehealth practitioner” means:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>A Maryland licensee of the Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists performing telehealth services within their respective scope of practice; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>An audiologist or speech-language pathologist with a compact privilege in Maryland performing telehealth services within their respective scope of practice.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>