HIPAA: Challenges for Behavioral Healthcare Providers in an Electronic Environment
EHRs, HIEs and PHRs have complicated access, documentation, permissions, and exchange of information between providers, caregivers, families, and patients.
In this webinar, learn the top 5 privacy challenges in behavioral health, what you can do to meet the privacy challenges, and what still needs to be addressed as behavioral health migrates into EHRs and health information exchanges.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and manage the top five privacy challenges for BH as it transitions into HIT
- Manage EHRs as they support and hinder provider / patient engagement in BH.
- Prepare for privacy and security risks common to behavioral health
- Operationalize and manage a privacy breach.
- Build shortcuts to FAQs about HIPAA and behavioral health.
Carolyn P Hartley, MLA
Physicians EHR, Inc.
President, CEO
Carolyn Hartley has been an instrumental change agent in the nation's migration to electronic health records, both as a co-author of 13 books for AMA, ADA, and ASCO on HIPAA and EHR Implementation, and also as a feet-on-the-ground project manager of the selection to post-go live issues management process.
Her company's most recent focus has been on implementation rescues as provider productivity diminishes and cultures change during the EHR process redesign. Carolyn is the lead architect of emPEHRical(tm) implementations, project management web-based software designed specifically to shepherd providers through the implementation process.
She has addressed audiences nationwide with a passion not only for providers in transition, but also for consumers who ultimately may enjoy the benefits of secure electronic exchange of protected health information.
