N.J. Admin. Code § 13:44K-7.2
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 client to be evaluated without being physically present.
"Council" means the Occupational Therapy Advisory Council.
"Cross-coverage" means a licensee engages in a remote occupational therapy evaluation of a client, without in-person contact, at the request of another licensee who has established a proper licenseeclient relationship with the client.
"Distant site" means a site at which a licensee is located while providing occupational therapy services by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Licensee" means an individual licensed by the Council.
"On-call" means a licensee is available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of a client for whom the licensee has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the client's primary care licensed occupational therapist or other health care provider of record.
"Originating site" means a site at which a client is located at the time that occupational therapy services are provided to the client by means of telemedicine or telehealth.
"Proper licensee-client relationship" means an association between a licensee and client, wherein the occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant owes a duty to the client to be available to render professional services consistent with his or her training and experience, which is established pursuant to the requirements at N.J.A.C. 13:44K-7.4.
"Telehealth" means the use of information and communications technologies, including telephones, remote client monitoring devices, or other electronic means, to support clinical health care, provider consultation, client 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 client 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 § 13:44K-7.2