Keeping Secrets beyond HIPAA: How to Maintain and Dispose of Patient Medical Records and Keep Client Confidentiality in Mental Health 2016

Topics

• 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

Who should Attend

• 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