Protect patients’ health information during telehealth sessions.
Telehealth practices face unique HIPAA compliance challenges. For example, telehealth practices must protect patients’ health information during telehealth sessions and must ensure that their telehealth platforms are HIPAA compliant.
Here are some tips for HIPAA compliance for telehealth practices:
- Choose a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform. Not all telehealth platforms are HIPAA compliant. When choosing a telehealth platform, make sure to ask if the platform is HIPAA compliant.
- Protect patients’ health information during telehealth sessions. You can protect patients’ health information during telehealth sessions by using a secure video conferencing platform and by encrypting all communications.
- Train your staff on HIPAA compliance for telehealth. Your staff should be trained on HIPAA compliance for telehealth so that they can help to protect your patients’ health information.
Here are some specific examples of HIPAA compliant telehealth platforms:
- Zoom Healthcare
- Doximity
- Doxy.me
- VSee
- Amwell
