Donald Trump Just Got Elected President. What Does This Mean for Telehealth?
There’s a lot of uncertainty going around about what the results of this election mean for the nation; healthcare being a major focus. While it’s difficult to determine what will happen with healthcare overall, you can be assured that Telehealth will always be a growing and relevant part of our lives.
SecureVideo Launches First Responder, A Specialized HIPAA-Compliant Videoconferencing Solution
As the industry leader in HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing, SecureVideo is excited to introduce a groundbreaking new service offering; First Responder was designed specifically to meet the needs of EMTs, police, and other first responders as they often find themselves in the field, presented with a situation that could benefit from a consult or a second opinion. […]
When NetBIOS over TCP/IP Name Resolution Stops Working
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, also known as NBT, is a bad idea whose time never should have come. We all know we shouldn’t use it, or WINS for that matter; we should just use DNS everywhere. And we also know that we shouldn’t eat a lot of bacon. But if someone has a plate of bacon […]
Saving Fiddler Responses To Disk
Fiddler is a fantastic tool that allows developers and IT professionals to see what’s happening under the hood when a web page is requested by a user. Somewhat simplified, when a user visits a web page, whether she knows it or not, she is using the HTTP protocol to request a web resource, and then […]
How to paste a screenshot from Google Chrome to ASP.NET MVC
If you’re like me, someone who has been building web applications for 15 years or so, then like me, you probably freaked out the first time you pasted a screenshot into your gmail. You thought, “what just happened?” You thought, “wait, this shouldn’t be possible!” And your immediate next thought was, “omg, how do I […]
SecureVideo For Any Professional
Did you know that www.securevideo.com is not just for people in the medical field that need to abide by HIPAA laws? The truth is, anyone looking for an easy, secure, low-cost videoconferencing connection could use SecureVideo. Our meetings are peer-to-peer. That means your video session isn’t routed through any servers and it can’t be saved […]
SecureVideo vs. Google Helpouts
Doctor’s visits online? Having multiple carriers to choose from? Are we living in a futuristic time or what?! Like many of you out there, I’m new to the field of telemedicine. Not as a practitioner but as a Technical Support Agent. I recently moved from the bustling, densely populated San Francisco Bay Area to a […]
Snowden Leaks Disclose NSA-Skype Cooperation
In a story that has been developing over the past several weeks, The Guardian disclosed last week that Microsoft has been providing the National Security Agency with access to recorded data collected on Skype, which was purchased by Microsoft for $8.5 billion in 2011. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of cooperation […]
Implementing JSON Web Tokens in .NET with a Base 64 URL Encoded key
I wasn’t able to find any good technical examples of how to implement JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for .NET when the key is Base 64 URL encoded according to the JWT spec (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-08#appendix-A.1, page 35). John Sheehan’s JWT library on GitHub is a nice starting point, and works well when the key is ASCII encoded […]
How to make a High Quality Videoconference
By Jonathan (JT) Taylor, Chief Technology Officer www.securevideo.com From a human perspective, a good videoconference is similar to a good movie. In a good movie, there is a “suspension of disbelief”, whereby the viewer–initially well aware of being seated in a movie theater and thus disbelieving of the reality of images appearing on the screen–eventually […]