HIPAA-Compliant Video API: Bring Telehealth Video Calls to Your App
Blog post from Stream
Telehealth apps increasingly incorporate video calling features to enhance the healthcare experience by enabling real-time visual assessments, improving communication, and allowing for more accurate diagnoses, which leads to better health outcomes and increased accessibility to care. While video calls offer significant benefits such as cost savings, improved healthcare accessibility, and enhanced communication, developers face challenges in implementing these features, including the need for reliable technical infrastructure, privacy and security concerns, and the complexity of integrating video calls into existing app interfaces. Using a third-party API for video calling can expedite the development process by providing ready-made solutions that address these challenges, ensuring features like HD video quality, end-to-end encryption, and HIPAA compliance, which are essential for maintaining data confidentiality and protecting sensitive patient information.