HIPAA Compliance

[JoeAggie93]

I was wondering whether anyone had run into any issues with VC and HIPAA?

[airwired]

We discuss patient information and review documents on a regular basis. These are point to point, encrypted discussions and are used for Quality Assurance and training. This type of review is noted as acceptable in our HIPAA documentiation.

[Oliver Black]

We just deal with it depending on the situation. Primarily we use a private network, firewalled for most of our clinics. If we have to go off campus, then we either run everything over a VPN or use encrypted conferencing (if we are only doing VTC and no EMR)

[tonyi]

From what i understand HIPPAA does not yet have specific rules for VTC. But it's in the works. I would say haveing Encryption is a good thing and seems to appease alot of the HIPPAA auditors i've run into in the industry. Least untill a VTC rule set is put in place. But i would guess encryption would be part of thoes rules.

[Gannan]

Are they coming up with a complience specificly for VTC or will they group them in the same class as computer systems?

I know some people were pushing for a seperation of the two for HIPAA considerration.

[tonyi]

Are they coming up with a complience specificly for VTC or will they group them in the same class as computer systems?

I know some people were pushing for a seperation of the two for HIPAA considerration.
My understanding is they are attempting to come up with HIPPA rules for Telemedicine. So take that definition as you will.