HIPAA Made Friendly: Ethics, Law, and Updated Regulations

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This is a beginning-intermediate level course introducing and updating psychotherapists, counselors, and other mental health providers to the complexities and applications of HIPAA regulations.

The course includes extensive updates on the Security Rule, Electronic Health Records (EHR), and numerous 2016 changes and interpretations of HIPAA according to the ever-evolving internet and cloud technology. It also includes 2013 Final Rule regulations and revised HIPAA forms. Course includes instant downloads of the entire HIPAA Kit 9th edition updated for ICD-10 and HIPAA Forms in Word and PDF formats ready to be easily personalized.

The course will explain HIPAA-related terms, such as Covered Entity, Privacy Rule, Security Rule, Psychotherapy Notes, Consent, Authorization, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Breach Assessment, Breach Notification Rule, and many other terms and rulings. The course will help psychotherapists achieve compliance with HIPAA and will point out how to deal with issues that arise when states’ laws and HIPAA regulations overlap. A state-by-state preemption analysis is not provided. However, a summary preemption analysis of California law and HIPAA is included. The course will provide therapists with some of the basic forms that they can adapt to their practices in order to comply with regulations. Additional resources and references are provided for further study, but they are not part of the course.