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Produced by ACRRM, this entire conference is recorded and available online.

The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) is an online community for health and medical professionals (generalists and specialists) who are interested in the use of TeleHealth to improve access to care for rural, Aboriginal and aged care patients. See www.ehealth.acrrm.org.au

Going to the ATA Meeting in Austin?

If you plan to attend the American Telemedicine Association meeting in Austin in a few weeks, I’m speaking on

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How to Encrypt Your Computer to Avoid HIPAA Breach Notification Requirements

This week, Person-Centered Tech published a pithy article explaining HIPAA breach notification requirements and how to avoid them. The upshot? Encrypt your computer.

The Perils of Using Skype (as Published in the Psychiatric Times)

Just today, the Psychiatric Times ran our article outlining why Skype isn't a wise choice for health care. As the lead author, I invite you to have a look at the article and leave your comments below.

If you'd like yet more information about Best Practices for audio/video platforms, see these three courses in our Certificate program, also available separately:

Not Making Enough Income with Behavioral or Mental Health?

If you've been working on your taxes and are realizing that you're not generating enough income, you're not alone. As described in "The Pay is the Thing: Re-evaluating Mental Health Reimbursement," most of us in behavioral or mental health care are not making fees that are commensurate with our level of training. As the author of that article linked above aptly states:

Increased Federal Medical Assistance Percentage Final Rule with Request for Comments

Yesterday, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put on display in the Federal Register a final rule with request for comments titled “Increased Federal Medical Assistance Percentage through the Affordable Care of 2010” (CMS-2327-FC.) This rule implements provisions of the Affordable Care Act on increased Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), or matching, rates for certain Medicaid beneficiaries in states.

Want To Augment Your Practice With Passive Income Online? Part IV

As we've been discussing, not all telehealth must involve direct care. The vast majority of the world's inhabitants will never meet with a behavioral or mental health professional. With the advent of the Internet and mHealth devices, they can nonetheless be helpoed with "self-help" materials, and especially those developed by professionals. Both self-help and professional training are two rich areas that have largely been untapped in telehealth, but noentheless are fully recognized by the U.S.

Want To Augment Your Practice With Passive Income Online? Part III

By Poonam Sharma, Ph.D.

Audiobooks

In our previous newsletter, we discussed how eBooks can be used to generate passive income. An additional product that can easily be generated from the content in your eBook is an audiobook. An audiobook is a digital recording of a printed book which you download from the internet and then listen to on a computer or portable device, such as an iPod or mp3 player.

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