Telemedicine is rapidly changing the healthcare industry. COVID-19 concerns aside, being able to see a doctor’s face without having to commute is a game changer.

Twilio Video allows developers to craft HIPAA-compliant telemedicine solutions that are fully under your control and tailored to your patients’ needs. Today I’ll show you how to make a telemedicine app using Twilio Video that lets you show a “virtual waiting room” where the patient can hang out until their doctor arrives. For the sake of simplicity, let’s build the front end in vanilla JS without a framework.

At a high level, here’s the steps we’ll be following:

• Set up a back end to control access to the application
• Set up basic front end scaffolding
• Build the provider experience
• Build the patient experience

For impatient types who want to skip straight to the code, the whole project is on GitHub.

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