That is not true during this pandemic though. The underlining, in the excerpt below, is mine. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/emergency-preparedness/notification-enforcement-discretion-telehealth/index.html
During the COVID-19 national emergency, which also constitutes a nationwide public health emergency, covered health care providers subject to the HIPAA Rules may seek to communicate with patients, and provide telehealth services, through remote communications technologies. Some of* these technologies,* and *the manner in which they are used *by HIPAA covered health care providers, may not fully comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Rules. *OCR will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance *with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency. This notification is effective immediately. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The computer my wife uses for net meetings and patient e-visits has a > > camera with a field of view limited to her head and shoulders, and a > simple > > curtain behind. > > > Your wife's company and her patients have much bigger concerns if all the > data being exchanged between her and her patients isn't strongly encrypted > and her computer isn't on it's own ip subnet behind a firewall without any > non-essential and approved applications installed and she doesn't have any > administrative privileges. > > This was pretty much the HIPPA standard 15 years ago when I was working at > one of the first hospitals in the country to implement a digital health > record and patient care system. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
