Your healthcare provider has much of the responsibility for ensuring that your privacy is protected during a video encounter, but you have a role to play as well.

• Make sure that you follow all of your provider’s instructions and take whatever security steps are suggested by the telemedicine application.
• Secure your mobile device with passwords or biometric identifiers.
• Finally, although you can do a video visit from almost anywhere, make sure you are in a place with sufficient privacy. It is best to find a room with a door that you can close so that you will have control over who can hear your conversation.