Tex. Health & Safety Code § 771.151 · Subchapter F. NEXT GENERATION 9-1-1 TELEMEDICINE MEDICAL SERVICES AND TELEHEALTH SERVICES PILOT PROJECT
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this subchapter:
(1) "Center" means the area health education center at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center that meets the requirements of 42 U.S.C. Section 294a and has been awarded federal funding as an area health education center.
(2) "Emergency medical services" means services used to respond to an individual's perceived need for immediate medical care and to prevent death or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury.
(3) "Emergency medical services provider" means a person who uses or maintains emergency medical services vehicles, medical equipment, and emergency medical services personnel to provide emergency medical services.
(4) "Emergency prehospital care" means care provided to a sick or injured individual before or during transportation of the individual to a medical facility, and includes any necessary stabilization of the individual in connection with that transportation.
(5) "Pilot project" means a pilot project established under Section 771.152.
(6) "Regional trauma resource center" means a trauma facility the center selects to participate in the pilot project.
(7) "Rural area" means:
(A) a county with a population of 50,000 or less; or
(B) a large, isolated, and sparsely populated area of a county with a population of more than 50,000.
(8) "Telehealth service" and "telemedicine medical service" have the meanings assigned by Section 111.001, Occupations Code.
(9) "Trauma facility" means a health care facility equipped and staffed to provide comprehensive treatment of seriously injured individuals as part of an emergency medical services and trauma care system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 667 (H.B. 617), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
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