HIPAA Compliance for Telehealth: What Developers Building Virtual Care Platforms Need to Get Right

Telehealth usage exploded during COVID and never came back down. What did come back was regulatory enforcement. The temporary HIPAA enforcement discretion that allowed providers to use consumer-grade video tools ended, and OCR is now actively investigating telehealth-related complaints. If you're building or maintaining a telehealth platform, the compliance requirements are the same as any system handling ePHI -- but the attack surface is dramatically different. Why Telehealth Has a Unique Risk