The Solo Practitioner’s Tech Setup for Success: Effectiveness, HIPAA Compliance, Client Safety, and Efficiency

1 CE Credit Hour. Legal-Ethical. Continuing Education Session Replay

Presented By: Roy Huggins, LPC NCC; Liath Dalton

Thriving in today’s practice environment means carefully choosing a great set of technical tools and services

Thriving in today’s practice environment means carefully choosing a great set of technical tools and services. You need them to help you do your work, clients to succeed, and the practice to thrive. Because of this, many solo practitioners struggle with things like:

Choosing effective services (e.g. EMR, phone, email, marketing, and more!) that work well, meet your HIPAA requirements, and keep costs way down.
Understanding what HIPAA, combined with a variety of ethics codes and state laws, actually requires you to do.
Determining which specific technical service providers help meet the above-named needs.

Course Description

The Solo Practitioner's Tech Setup for Success

Educational Objectives

Describe 1 way in which HIPAA requirements for data security may not protect clients from psychological and/or physical harm by absers
Describe how HIPAA Business Associate Agreements help clinicians satisfy both HIPAA legal requirements and professional ethical standards around third-party services
Choose email, phone, texting, video, and other communications services that are able to protect client safety and maintain HIPAA compliance

Syllabus

Fundamental HIPAA Requirements for Your Tech
- Business Associates
- Technical tools vs. behavioral tools in maintaining the security of your clients’ information
Basic and intermediate tech setup “recipes” for solo practices
- Low-intensity tech setups
  1. Benefits and risks of each tech setup “recipe”
  2. Specific sets of services that come together to make each tech setup “recipe”
  3. Legal-ethical requirements and caveats around those services in each tech setup “recipe”
- Medium-intensity recipes
  1. Benefits and risks of each tech setup “recipe”
  2. Specific sets of services that come together to make each tech setup “recipe”
  3. Legal-ethical requirements and caveats around those services in each tech setup “recipe”

References

US Dept. of Health and Human Services. (2006). HIPAA Administrative Simplification. Washington, DC: Author.
US Dept. of Health and Human Services. (2013). HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. Washington, DC: Author.
US Dept. of Health and Human Services. (2020). Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement. Retrieved January 08, 2021, from https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-ocr-hipaa-nprm.pdf
US Dept. of Health and Human Services. (2021). Information Blocking FAQs. Retrieved January 21, 2021, from https://www.healthit.gov/curesrule/resources/information-blocking-faqs

1 CE Credit Hour.

$24.00

Presented/Developed By

Roy Huggins, LPC NCC, is a counselor in private practice who also directs Person-Centered Tech. Roy worked as a professional Web developer for 7 years before changing paths and makes it his mission to grow clinicians’ understanding of the Internet and other electronic communications mediums for the future of our practices and our professions.

Roy is an adjunct instructor at the Portland State University Counseling program where he teaches Ethics and is a member of the Zur Institute advisory board. He has acted as a subject matter expert on HIPAA, security, and clinical use of technology for Counseling licensure boards, and both state and national mental health professional organizations. He has co-authored or authored 2 book chapters, and he routinely consults with mental health colleagues on ethical and practical issues surrounding tech in clinical practice. He served for 5 years on the board of the Oregon Mental Health Counselors Association and then the Oregon Counseling Association as the Technology Committee Chair.

He really likes this stuff.

Liath Dalton is PCT’s deputy director and a co-owner. Liath is especially passionate about helping therapists be resourced and supported in navigating the security compliance process and identifying the solutions and processes that meet the particular needs of their practices. Liath’s consultation area of expertise is focused on selecting the right combination of services and tech that not only meet the legal-ethical needs of mental health practices, but also the functionality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness needs as well.

Program Notices

Accuracy, Utility, and Risks Statement: None

Conflicts of Interest: None reported.

Commercial Support: Person Centered Tech Inc. is sponsoring this event and will give a brief commercial presentation during the break.

This course is subject to our cancellation/refund policy and complaint policy.