Frequently Asked Questions

Below you will find information regarding regulatory, financial, and cultural telemedicine questions organized by country. If you have a question regarding telemedicine you would like addressed, please submit it here. These tables were graciously created by our Telemedicine Study Group . They have also created a step-by-step telemedicine guide that you can find here.

Locales

• Asia (South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore)
• Canada
• Europe (Ireland, Spain, Holland)
• Israel
• Middle Eastern Region (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia)
• North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia)
• Oceania (Australia, New Zealand)
• South America (Argentina, Uruguay)
• Sub-Saharan African Countries (South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia, Tanzania)
• United States of America

Participating countries and neurologists

Canada (Mark Guttman, Sylvain Chouinard), US (Jaime Hatcher, Zoltan Mari, Meredith Spindler, Nicholas Galifianakis, Alex Pantelyat, Caroline Tanner, Mitra Afshari, Anhar Hassan), Argentina (Emilia Gatto), Uruguay (Adriana Cardozo), Spain (Esther Cubo), Ireland (Patrick Browne), Netherlands (Bas Bloem), South Korea (Jinyoung Joun), China (Piu Chan), Japan: (Shinsuke Fujioka, Genko Oyama); Taiwan: (Ming-Kai Pan, Hsien-Liang Huang); Singapore: (Zheyu Xu, Shermyn Neo); Australia (Carolyn Sue, Kelly Bertram), New Zealand (David Bourke, Barry Snow), Saudi Arabia (Jawad Bajwa, Zaki Aldaajani, Pakistan (Qamar-Un-Nisa, Muhammad Irfan, Naeemullah Bullo), Egypt (Ali Shalash, Eman Hamid), South Africa (Jonathan A Carr, Riaan van Coller, Ferzana Amod), Zambia (Prof. Masharip), Cameroon: (Jacques Doumbe), Ethiopia (Biniyam Alemayehu), Israel (Hila Ben-Pazi), Tanzania (Kigocha Okengo, Meredith Dekker), Nigeria (Lara Oyatoye, Njideka Okubadejo); Tunisia: (Prof Samia Ben Sassi), Morocco (Tibar Houyam) Ghana: (Augustina Charway-Felli)

Submitted Questions

Is it possible for me to record a video from my patients at office and consult with MDS professionals?

"Thank you for the question. What you describe is usually referred to as 'asynchronous video consultation' and some pilot studies and programs do exist to evaluate this particular telemedicine modality, usually in digitally underserved areas with scarce availability of broadband internet access. Outside of such established, formally IRB reviewed and approved pilot studies, the MDS Telemedicine Study Group does not generally provide such consultations at the present time. However, it is common practice that colleagues in the global movement disorder community informally share video recordings of their patient with expert colleagues for 2nd opinion."