The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services announced it will not impose penalties on healthcare providers for HIPAA non-compliance related to good faith provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. OCR will allow popular video communication technologies like FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video, and Google Hangouts for telehealth without penalties. However, public-facing apps like Facebook Live should not be used. OCR encourages use of encrypted, HIPAA-compliant options and notifies that it has not reviewed specific vendors' agreements.