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objectives telemedicine widely used covid19 pandemic among health care professionals chinese medicine practitioners cmps face practical challenges providing telemedicine consultations study aims explore cmps experience perceptions telemedicine service provision pandemic methods territorywide crosssectional online survey conducted hong kong april may 2022 structured questionnaire openended questions used investigate provision perception telemedicine service well usability telemedicine among cmps results total 195 cmps participated survey covid19 42 81195 providing telemedicine services proportion doubled covid19 cmps private sector main providers mobile apps including whatsapp wechat zoom commonly used consultations 75 120161 barriers providing telemedicine included inability conducting physical examination patients 69 134195 legal ethical concerns medical negligence 61 118195 patients incompetence eliteracy 50 98195 respondents urged professional regulatory bodies provide explicit clinical guideline demonstrate best practice traditional chinese medicine telemedicine clarify legal ethical implications practice conclusions cmps demonstrated competency telemedicine provided telemedicine covid19 development appropriate guidelines provision telemedicine would support cmps continue provision pandemic whereas userfriendly comprehensive telemedicine eplatform would enhance quality service facilitating patients lower eliteracy access telemedicine key reduce disparities