[csnover]

One of my health care providers use Microsoft Teams as their telehealth solution. My city government uses Microsoft Teams for some public meetings. The idea that folks are only using Teams to connect with other trusted parties is comforting, but false.

[noir_lord]

> Microsoft Teams as their telehealth solution

That sounds..interesting.

I suspect with the on-going pandemic lots of tools are getting used in interesting ways they where never really designed for just to keep things going.

[kritiko]

Microsoft advertises Teams for telehealth:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...

[csnover]

It’s bad, but it’s mostly bad because Teams is bad. It’s still better than Amwell, which somehow manages to have multi-second latencies and requires me to manually mute my video preview to stop it looping back my own audio.

The old P2P Skype had better video quality and latency, even when talking to people 4000 miles away, than every video product I’ve used in the last year. Probably not coincidentally, every video product I’ve used in the last year has been web-based. WebRTC is an enormous disappointment.

[Isthatablackgsd]

Teams as their telehealth solution? What is wrong with Doxy.me? It is HIPAA compliant and privacy-orientated for telehealth than Teams.

[elpakal]

believe Teams is also used for the NBA virtual fan thing, so there are... a lot of people connecting there...