[PLUG] Net meetings and keyboard/mouse visibility

[Mike C.]

True enough and very good to know.

The concerns I was speaking about weren't just in regards to regulatory
compliance penalties but about being more concerned about a secure
communication channel and less concerned about the possible capturing of
keyboard strokes via web video camera.

Telehealth isn't a new thing and all Healthcare providers don't have the
same access to technology. I wouldn't be happy if I had to use Zoom for a
telehealth appointment but if it was absolutely  necessary and the only
option, I'd use it.



On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:39 PM Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> 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.
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