Section 373-6-2 - DEFINITIONS1. "Asynchronous store-and-forward transmission" means the collection of a patient's relevant health information and the subsequent transmission of the information from an originating site to a health care provider at a distant site without the presence of the patient.2. "Board" means the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine or the Board of Osteopathic Licensure.3. "Distant site" means the location of the licensee providing telemedicine services.4. "In-person encounter" means that the licensee and the patient are in the physical presence of each other and are in the same physical location during the physician-patient encounter.5. "Licensee" means a physician or physician assistant licensed or registered by the Board.6. "Originating site" means the location of the patient at the time of the examination, diagnosis, consultation or treatment.7. "Patient-Physician Relationship" has the same meaning as defined by Opinion 10.015 in the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics 2014-2015 Edition.8. "Synchronous" means an interactive telemedicine encounter between a patient and a licensee that occurs at the same time.9. "Telemedicine" means the practice of medicine or the rendering of health care services using electronic audio-visual communications and information technologies or other means, including interactive audio with asynchronous store-and-forward transmission, between a licensee in one location and a patient in another location with or without an intervening health care provider. Telemedicine includes asynchronous store-and-forward technologies, remote monitoring, and real-time interactive services, including teleradiology and telepathology. Telemedicine shall not include the provision of medical services only through an audio-only telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, facsimile transmission, or U.S. mail or other parcel service, or any combination thereof.10. "Telemedicine technologies" means technologies and devices enabling secure electronic communications and information exchanges between a licensee in one location and a patient in another location with or without an intervening health care provider.