Just after I published my last post, I got a Google alert on another blog post “HIPAA & Hijacked SKYPE Passwords: Another Security Violation that Brings Viability of Online Counseling via SKYPE into Yet More Questioning” at Telehealth.net in which the author talks about Skype password hijacking. Password hijacking means that someone else basically breaks [...]
Also tagged informed consent, security, skypeI was talking with a friend a few days ago about telepsychiatry, and she asked a good question. “Is Skype HIPAA-compliant?” For those fortunate individuals who don’t know what HIPAA is, HIPAA is a law passed in 1996 governing, among several other things, privacy of medical records. This law is responsible for the unintelligible two to [...]
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