Beyond HIPAA: Patient Medical Records and Client Confidentiality in Mental Health
OVERVIEW This HIPAA & Privacy Act Training covers confidentiality beyond the privacy and other protections required by HIPAA. An in-depth overview of medical records keeping starts this webinar examining the state law sources and even contractual requirements of medical record keeping. The webinar proceeds to review exceptions to confidentiality that is most frequently encountered by mental health professionals who practice in a high-risk setting where the consequences of a misstep can be very high. For many years now, HIPAA has provided a federal right to privacy for patient medical records, including mental health records. However, fearing issues not with federal mandates but with state laws, the mental health care practitioner must know and comply with individual state laws and ethics governing the confidentiality of client information in the context of a doctor-patient relationship. This is apart and beyond the technical components of HIPAA. HI...

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