{
  "id": 16722471,
  "title": "Telehealth video visits with expiring links: one API call per appointment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/telehealth-video-visits-with-expiring-links-one-api-call-per",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-27T07:29:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/maxwell_lin_d59a2746f8a27/telehealth-video-visits-with-expiring-links-one-api-call-per-appointment-2nag"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Telehealth video visits using expiring links follow a simple process with one API call per appointment. The clinic or health platform creates the visit using a server API key with write access to temporary meetings. The key stays on the server, while the patient receives a guest link and the clinician receives a staff link. Both links expire after a set time, usually 60 minutes. When the visit ends, either by time expiry, cancellation, or both parties leaving the meeting, the links are revoked. The visit starts only when both patient and clinician are online together, and the callback URL receives webhook events to confirm when the visit truly began and ended.",
  "summary": "From the Streaming CDN team. The original, kept up to date, is at streaming-cdn.ewin888.com/guides/telehealth-video-visit-api-expiring-links . A clinic or health platform usually wants the same thing for every appointment: a link the patient can open in a browser without installing anything, a different link for the clinician, both dead after the visit window, and a record of when the visit…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}