Do You Need to Integrate Your Telehealth App?
A question you may ask when building an application is, do you need to integrate your telehealth app? When building your telehealth application, it may be a standalone application. This is the simplest to secure because there is no application interface where private data might be exchanged with outside systems.  However, it’s typical that your telehealth app will need to integrate with other systems. External systems could include: Electronic Medical Record systems Payment, Invoicing, or Billing
How to Make Sure Your Telehealth Video App is HIPAA Compliant
It is important to understand how to make sure your telehealth video app is HIPAA compliant so that your patients' information can be secured properly. For discussion purposes, we will consider a telehealth application where patients may search for doctors and then schedule a video consultation with them. To keep it simple, let’s focus on the healthcare provider directory and the patient’s video consultation. When the patient is booking a consultation with their doctor, these are
Survey: Calling All WebRTC Developers – Your Input is Needed!
Last year, we sent out a survey asking you to share your experiences and challenges as a webRTC developer and were astounded by your response. As you know, over the last 12 months, the world of webRTC has not only grown a lot but has experienced much change. It is time to once again examine the webRTC development trends. We'd like to learn more about the challenges you face, and what you're seeing in the WebRTC marketplace. So, we
August 6th RealTimeWeekly #241
Real Time Weekly #241: August 6, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! The big news last week in the WebRTC ecosystem is the acquirement of TokBox by Vonage. In addition we have tutorials and articles from Pusher, PubNub, WebRTCHacks, Twilio and a WebRTC video tutorial from one of our readers! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly
[TUTORIAL] ​How ​to ​Build ​a ​Video Conference ​Application ​with WebRTC ​& ​Tokbox
This tutorial will be how to build a video conference ​application ​with WebRTC ​& ​Tokbox. We will cover how to build a video conference application by using a Communication-Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solution, this means that we will focus only on coding our application and not on the infrastructure on which rely. We will use Tokbox as the CPaaS solution. So before we begin, go ahead and create an account if you don’t already have one. Tokbox
Meet the Team: Maynor Taisigüe, WebRTC.ventures’ Information Security Officer
Henry Ford was once quoted as saying, "The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people". You know what we do at webRTC.ventures — we bring people together by closing geographical gaps using real time communication. However, you may not know WHO we are...that is until now. Each week, we have been introducing you to a member of our team. This week we would like to
[TUTORIAL] ​How ​to ​Build ​a ​Video Conference ​Application ​with WebRTC ​& ​Kurento ​Media ​Server
Learning though a tutorial on how to build a video conference application with WebRTC and a Kurento media server is an easy way to see how WebRTC works. Though the original idea behind WebRTC is to establish a peer-to-peer direct connection, a media server is useful to add advanced functionality like recording, multi party and custom processing to the call.We will use Kurento, which is an open source media server, to add support for more
July 30th RealTimeWeekly #240
Real Time Weekly #240: July 30, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! This week we've got several real-time tutorials from PubNub, Pusher, and WebRTC.ventures. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company, WebRTC.ventures Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! Twilio + PHP to Call and Text July 18 Twilio Learn
[Tutorial] How to Build a Video Conference Application with WebRTC
In this blog post, we will provide a tutorial on how to build a video conference application using webRTC. We will not complicate it too much, it will be a simple one-to-one video conference application using nothing more than the WebRTC APIs and a few other libraries to build a custom signaling server. Let's first make a quick recapitulation of facts before we get started. To do so let's check the following diagram of webRTC
Which Multi-Party WebRTC Option Should You Go With?
With WebRTC, you have a number of options for adding more than one user to the connection in order to make it a multi-party video call. We know that WebRTC provides real time communication using video, audio and data, natively on the browser and through a secure peer-to-peer connection. Of course, you and I both know that we also need signaling and a couple of STUN/TURN servers to do the trick. But in order to
July 23rd RealTimeWeekly #239
Real Time Weekly #239: July 23, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! This week we've got content about push notifications using Pusher, a real-time react app using PubNub, object detector with TensorFlow, WebRTC app using Agora.io, and an article about SFU from WebRTC.ventures. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company,
Adriana Benavides, Project Lead
Henry Ford was once quoted as saying, "The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people". You know what we do at webRTC.ventures — we bring people together by closing geographical gaps using real time communication. However, you may not know WHO we are...that is until now. Each week, we have been introducing you to a member of our team. This week we would like to
July 16th RealTimeWeekly #238
Real Time Weekly #238: July 16, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! This week we've got interesting articles about Video Codecs, WebRTC MCU Architecture, Jitsi scaling, PubNub Functions, WebSockets, and more. Take a look to the TokBox's blog post about AR, good job! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company,
Multi-Party WebRTC Option 3: SFU
Multi-Party WebRTC Option 3's strategy is SFU, which stands for Selective Forwarding Unit. The idea behind SFU is similar to MCU. It has a media server in the middle to which all peers send their streams, only that instead of making any heavy processing on it, the server routes them to other peers so that they can make any needed processing. This way the server doesn't need to be a super powerful server with high
Learn What HIPAA Health Info You Need to Protect!
Here is a list of patient identifying information you need to secure in your healthcare application, as summarized from HIPAA.com. Protected HIPAA Health Information should be: Names, Geographic subdivisions smaller than a state, including address, city, county, precinct, zip code All elements of the dates related to an individual, except for year. For example, you can list the year a patient was born, but not the month and day since that is identifying. Telephone numbers
Germán Goldenstein: Developer Evangelist
Henry Ford was once quoted as saying, "The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people". You know what we do at webRTC.ventures — we bring people together by closing geographical gaps using real time communication. However, you may not know WHO we are...that is until now. Each week, we are going to introduce you to a member of our team. This week we would like
Telehealth HIPAA Compliance Primer
The Telehealth HIPAA Compliance Primer can be an important feature in telehealth security. In order to be HIPAA compliant, an organization must be able to show that they have developed their IT systems according to the security and privacy guidelines of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. While there is no formal certification process, organizations need to: keep records about how they secure their data what policies and procedures they will follow to prevent
July 9th RealTimeWeekly #237
Real Time Weekly #237: July 9, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! A new issue full of WebRTC and Realtime tutorials! My favorite of this week is the tutorial from Nexmo to build an Android app that makes phone calls with WebRTC. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company, WebRTC.ventures
Multi-Party WebRTC Option 2: MCU
A great option for Multi- Party WebRTC is MCU. MCU stands for Multipoint Controller Unit, a.k.a. mixing, is another strategy for implementing multi-party on WebRTC. With MCU, the idea is that instead of having a peer establishing a connection with all other peers, it only has to connect to one central entity, and this in turn, sends the media to all other peers and vice versa. This central entity, receives the name of media server,
Must Have Features in Telehealth Applications
It's important to consider the full scope of functionality that you want your telehealth application to implement. The must have features in telehealth applications differ based on how you want your application to function. Building it in multiple stages is usually the preferred method to control costs and reduct the implementation timeline, but it's still a good idea to consider everything you'll want in the application eventually. Here are the most common features our clients
