Keeping Secrets beyond HIPAA: How to Maintain and Dispose of Patient Medical Records and Keep Client Confidentiality in Mental Health 2016 is a seminar that covers topics such as:
- Overview of medical record keeping standards, including electronic records
- The basics of HIPAA requirements for patient records
- Most common exceptions to state statutes and administrative regulations for confidentiality
- Compare and contrast state statutes and administrative regulations on professional requirements for confidentiality
- Case law from the courts apply standards of client confidentiality
- State and federal rules of evidence for legal standards governing the use of client secrets in any legal proceeding
- Check-list for successfully handling the client confidentiality dilemmas of the mental health practitioner
- Individual vignettes and hypothetical dilemmas from the differing perspectives learned during this continuing education, and
Keeping Secrets beyond HIPAA: How to Maintain and Dispose of Patient Medical Records and Keep Client Confidentiality in Mental Health 2016 brings together:
- Psychologists
- Individual mental health care practitioners
- Social workers
- Marriage and family therapists
- Pastoral counselors
- Professional counselors
- Advanced practice registered nurses with psychiatric specialty
- Psychiatrists
- Corporate managers at mental health care facilities
- Health care lawyers for individual practitioners and for health care facilities
