I have a vpn activated on my phone. I need to use it to make a video call in medical portal. I am in New Jersey and the app needs to register me as I am located in New York at the time of the call tomorrow am.
I hope it is as simple as turning off my wifi and having the vpn setup to NY?
Please let me know if there is anything else I need to do as I’m a noob with this stuff.
So you are trying to get around not being somewhere you are supposed to be for a call?
Did you install the VPN app? Or did your work?
Idk what kind of medical issue you’re having but just to be safe, this is one of the thing you don’t want to fuck around and find out. If things got ugly down the line and legals are involved this can bring more trouble than it’s worth.
Unless you have a personal VPN server setup at the IP address your call is supposed to be originating from, then I don’t see how this will work.
Just having “a VPN” means your connection is going to show as coming from the location of the VPN server you’re connected to (assuming you even have it configured correctly).
It’s a video visit w/ my doctor. I don’t understand why but they want me to be in the same state for a 5 minute convo. It’s my personal phone and vpn app.
It’s just a regular follow up that doesn’t warrant a in person visit. This is some new thing they have all of a sudden in the app. I guess I’ll cross the Hudson river and pay the $15 toll to sit in my car for this 5 min call.
Because they can only treat people who are present in the state(s) they are licensed in
Might be some legal thing from their side. But I am not sure how they would know where you are from, if they are using Zoom or something for the call, they wont have access to your source IP (should not)
Might be a little bias and over cautious as I’ve seen quite a few times people trying to skirt around regulations and then it blew in their face.
Thisss… I do VPNs for a living, and my best friend is a tele-doc (radiologist). He has to be medically licensed and insured in every state he reads a scan from. We’re talking malpractice insurance payments more than most middle class paychecks. They absolutely cannot treat (online or otherwise) anyone physically located in a state they’re not licensed to practice. (and they have to keep paying that insurance for X amount of years from the last time they practiced in it).
Thank you. I honestly appreciate it.