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Does Video Contact with Clients or Patients Require HIPAA Compliance?
If a US-based company isn’t claiming HIPAA compliance, my tendency is to recommend against using them for the delivery of telepsychiatry, telepsychology, online therapy or online counseling in the US, until they make claims for which they can be held accountable by our federal consumer protection agencies. That includes email, chat rooms, telephone or videoconferencing.
Full StoryVideo Makes The Case for Caution and Perspective in TeleMental Health and Coaching
Back in 1910, automobiles were just beginning to be mass-produced, roads were not paved, driver’s licenses were not issued, and people were experimenting with their new automobiles by driving everywhere they could, along dirt roads, over fields, any yes, into ditches. For a quick 10-minute video clip that illustrates how this analogy relates to telemental health and coaching, just look here: MP4 version or FLV version.
Full StoryAT&T to Make High Resolution Video Conferencing Available to Healthcare
In a press release on their website, AT&T announced on November 4, 2010 that they have committed resources to developing a range of specialized services using technology to improve health care and reduce medical costs.
Full StoryWhat Can We Learn from this “Innovation” Video Re: the Psychology of Online Interactivity?
The video I’m referencing below starts by looking at what works to make Facebook games so successful. It expands it the discussion to include video games, such as mafia wars and farmville. The professor in the video explains why he thinks the psychological factors underpinning those games have catapulted small websites into $300 million businesses in short periods of time.
Full StorySkype and Security for Healthcare: Let’s Be Reasonable
While I have every confidence their systems will eventually be far more than HIPAA compliant, I’m reluctant to encourage any of my patients or colleagues to currently risk confidentiality for the sake of convenience. Until we get official word from these companies in a way that the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will hold them accountable for any claims about HIPAA-compliance, I don’t think it’s wise. Just because we have the ability to deliver services online in email, chat room or via public videoconferencing network such as Skype or Google Talk, utilizing those abilities for direct client or patient care isn’t prudent or professional. That’s my opinion, what’s yours? Please comment below.
Full StoryMobile Apps Soon to Revolutionize Daily Life
For a glimpse into the immediate future and how mobile apps will soon permeate modern life in the US, have a look at this eye-popping video!
Full StoryLegitimate Online Counselors Are Coming, but Meanwhile, Consumer Beware – Part I
Telehealth and telemedicine protocols typically involve the presence of a licensed practitioner either in the room with the patient or very nearby, such as in the adjoining room. They also involve community backup systems to be set up for the patient, and if practitioner be aware of those systems in the case of emergency. Consent forms in these cases include the names of family members, community leaders or trusted religious leaders who can be called upon if the professional is uncomfortable with anything that has transpired during remote contact with the patient. Telehealth and telemedicine consent forms ask patients to accept much lower risks than what might exist with public acess, proprietary Internet-based technologies such as Skype, chat rooms, or email.
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