Hospitals using telehealth to combat the coronavirus still have legal pitfalls to avoid, even under relaxed guidelines just released by the Trump administration.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said Tuesday that it won’t enforce penalties under federal health privacy policies if covered entities use popular video chat apps, including Apple FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video chat, Google Hangouts video, or Skype, to provide telehealth services.
Facebook Live, Twitch, TikTok, and other similar video communication apps, however, shouldn’t be used for telehealth by covered health-care providers, the OCR added.
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