Training Title:
Confidentiality: Back to the Basics

Clock Hours: 1

Objectives:
After completing this course, participants should be able to: • Understand what HIPAA has to do with confidentiality. • Understand the importance of encryption of records. • Be able to define what is included in private records and the mental health record. • Learn what to do if your records are stolen or hacked. • Understand which of your associates require a HIPAA-compliant agreement.

Description:
Mental health providers are so busy helping others that we often find ourselves flirting with trouble in terms of confidentiality and all that it includes. Do we understand just what “confidential communication” is? What is and is not the “mental health record?” Who gets to see the mental health record and who does not? What are “personal notes” and who can see them? What about HIPAA and what we absolutely must do in our electronic data? Are we using correct release of information forms? Listen and learn in this interview with attorney Jonathan Nye! Keywords: Confidentiality, ethics, HIPAA, information release, data storage, data destruction

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