I am currently awaiting an answer on this topic from CMS (i.e. the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services). But it occurs to me that when HIPAA was enacted (1996), there was no such entity as consumer-level telepsychiatry, otherwise known as "home-based telepsychiatry" or "Skype telepsychiatry", so clearly it was not addressed in the original legislation.
In fact, Skype (TM) employs an extremely sophisticated 264-bit encryption technique, essentially eliminating the possibility of interception for all but the most proficient and criminally motivated of hackers.
Does that qualify for HIPAA compliance?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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