Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 9 - Chiropractors

• Asynchronous encounter: means an interaction between a patient and a person licensed under this chapter through a system that has the ability to store digital information, including, but not limited to, still images, video files, audio files, text files and other relevant data, and to transmit such information without requiring the simultaneous presence of the patient and the person licensed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 566
• certified seed: as used in this Title shall be deemed to mean potato, vegetable, forage crop or grain seeds as shall have been grown and prepared for sale in accordance with regulations laid down by the commissioner and for which a certificate or tag has been issued as provided in section 2103. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 2101
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Store and forward transfer: means the transmission of a patient's records through a secure electronic system to a person licensed under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 566
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Synchronous encounter: means a real-time interaction conducted with an interactive audio or video connection between a patient and a person licensed under this chapter or between a person licensed under this chapter and another health care provider. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 566
• Telehealth services: means health care services delivered through the use of information technology and includes synchronous encounters, asynchronous encounters, store and forward transfers and telemonitoring. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 566
• Telemonitoring: means the use of information technology to remotely monitor a patient's health status via electronic means, allowing the person licensed under this chapter to track the patient's health data over time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 566
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.