There was a news article which came out over the weekend which described the results of a systematic review by members of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom. I tried looking on both the RCP and the RCGP’s web sites, but couldn’t find a link [...]
Tagged physician's attitudes, RCGP, RCP, safetySo, in my post last week , I described why I don’t think that the protocol used by Skype (assuming that it is the one they claim to be using on their website) seems fairly secure to me–it’s the same protocol used by banks and is approved by the government for the transmission of top [...]
Tagged EHR, HIPAA, privacy, security, skypeI noticed an announcement last week saying that Skype was releasing a new beta version of its software for Windows which allows up to five people to participate in a video call simultaneously. Alas, it isn’t clear when they’ll have something for Linux and Mac users, but this will certainly be a feature that I’ll [...]
Tagged conference call, environment, skype, WindowsI got a couple of comments a month ago regarding Skype security and in response to my previous post “Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?“ Marlene Maheu at the TeleMental Health Institute’s Center for Online Counseling and Psychotherapy has a blog post on Telehealth.net in which she voices some concerns about Skype security and in which she references [...]
Tagged HIPAA, security, skype
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