Sure but zoom is hipaa compliant and FaceTime is not. Apple refuses to share a business associate agreement whereas zoom shares this with paid plans. I do agree

Sure but zoom is hipaa compliant and FaceTime is not. Apple refuses to share a business associate agreement whereas zoom shares this with paid plans. I do agree that I seriously question the security of the small telehealth platforms that cropped up during Covid though, hipaa compliant or not. I am certain apple does security significantly better than simplepractice, doxy.me, etc but it’s the regulatory piece of handling PHI. The BAA is essential to that and apple/discord/etc have made it clear through their silence after years that they don’t want to be responsible for safe data handling of phi. Bottom line though is if your therapist is using FaceTime/discord/etc they are ignorant to hipaa protocols or not practicing ethically, both are concerning. Very frustrating from a consumer perspective because how the fuck are you supposed to know what is and isn’t hipaa compliant. It’s silly to have to research whether your clinician is using a regulatory compliant platform but here we are, I guess