The Office of Civil Rights (the HIPAA People) recently announced a new HIPAA initiative at the local level that might impact small therapy practices.
There’s no better resource for attracting clients than your own self. And Ernesto Segismundo knows how to get that self out to prospective clients through video!
We learn new therapy modalities and mediums in a variety of ways, and telemental health is simply yet another medium. But do ethical standards or laws *require* training before we can engage in the practice?
A current trend in telemental health is the use of “platforms” for delivering and managing services. Platforms are integrated services that include multiple features for telemental health pros besides just the basic video calling. The question is: do you need one for your telemental health practice? Or is a piecemeal approach to your tech the […]
With the growing popularity of telemental health, it’s a wonder that it isn’t easier to identify which software is best to use to perform these services. Here I will try to provide some clarity on that subject. What Video Software Should I Use? When choosing software, we need to consider if it is secure enough […]
A security researcher recently discovered a problem in many (but not all) Android phones and tablets that can allow bad guys to bypass the Android’s encryption features. While the issue is one that needs to be addressed right now, it is also one that can be fixed. Remember that this is simply a report on […]
International online therapy means a lot of jurisdictions and complexity. But it’s definitely achievable if you know before you go (and start doing it)!
On June 3rd (2016), we were lucky enough to get a presentation on telemental health from Jay Ostrowski. You can view the whole thing here (no reg or payment required.) He didn’t just talk about telemental health, though! Being as close to the machine of change as Jay is, he dropped some pretty big pearls […]
A phone line for your practice that costs ZERO dollars? Sounds too good to be true. With HIPAA, it might be… or it might not?
A delicate intervention is blocked by chopping or freezing. Or the connection is so bad there’s just no doing therapy at all. What can we do to fix that?