Thread: Skype and HIPAA
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Old Feb 09, 2019, 12:23 PM
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Yeah. And she said that she had transitioned all her patients to Zoom - it's HIPAA compliant. But she was still using Skype with me because that was what we had been using all this while before she transitioned her patients to Zoom. But guess what? She had a patient scheduled right after me yesterday. And the patient called her in from Skype. I recognized the Skype ringing sound.

She also said that she is very strict about HIPAA stuff. If you're so strict about it, then why were you still using Skype with me? There's nothing to take up to cyber security. It's about doing away with Skype completely and using something HIPAA compliant like Zoom.

And she said that my looking the names up on Skype knowing they could be her patients, family, or friends is wrong. But when I looked her up on Google and Google search led me to her ex-spouse and family and I looked them up further, back then, she didn't say it was wrong or snooping. In fact, back then, she said that what is public, is public. I don't see the difference in this sense.