Highlights: If you are new to telemental health or school-based telehealth, selecting the software and hardware technology can be daunting. Often providers get deep into selecting vendors too quickly because they want to identify cost/profit up front. They may incidentally skip the needed planning work that would simplify vendor selection. Before you select a vendor or finalize a contract, we recommend that you go through the steps in the Telehealth Vendor Selection Toolkit. Then use the independent site made specifically for the purpose of finding HIPAA-compliant software: Telementalhealth Software Comparisons.

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