A FedRAMP status is really two separate pieces of information, glued together. One tells you how far along a platform is in getting approved. The other tells you what kind of data it’s allowed to touch. Read them apart, and any status — no matter how it’s worded — becomes…

FedRAMP and FISMA are related, but not interchangeable. Both sit on the same NIST 800-53 High baseline — but FISMA is the umbrella law that says every federal system needs an Authority to Operate (ATO), while FedRAMP is the cloud-specific program built on top of it. A FedRAMP High ATO…

Short answer: Yes. If an EHR runs in the cloud and touches federal health data, it must be FedRAMP authorized — or have an agency ATO that meets the FedRAMP bar. No law spells out “EHR” by name, but federal law makes FedRAMP mandatory for the cloud services EHRs run…

Updated 8/01/2023 The Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) announced that the two-year COVID-19 holiday is over for telehealth providers. The flexibilities allowed by the Act 30 of 2022 will be terminated on October 31, 2022 April 1, 2023 January 1, 2024.  Reinstated telehealth documentation regulations…

About Speaker Milton is a co-founder and CEO of VSee – the only approved video telehealth platform used by NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He did his PhD at Stanford University where he researched human factors and design of video collaboration. Milton is also the co-author of the…