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California Relaxes the Rules for mHealth, Telehealth Video Chats
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is relaxing state rules to allow healthcare providers to use telehealth and mHealth tools like Skype and FaceTime without penalty.
Both Newsom’s order and the OCR action are designed to allow providers to use telehealth and mHealth tools that had previously been forbidden because they don’t have the safeguards to protect personal health information. As long as providers are using the tools in good faith, Newsom said, they should not worry about the legal implications.
What this means is that healthcare providers may use Skype, FaceTime, Zoom, Doxy.me, Updox, VSee, Google G Suite Hangouts Meet, and similar technologies for real-time audio/video communications with their patients, without fear that OCR might levy a penalty.
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