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A Delicate Balance: Behavioral Health Patient Privacy and the Need to Know

1 CE Hour
768 members have taken this course

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About the Course

Finding the correct balance regarding patient safety, quality of health care, and privacy of health care information is a major challenge for health care practioners and institutions. While knowing about a patient’s history of mental illness and/or substance use is vital to proper care, disclosing such information carries significant risks. This course explores federal and state laws governing health information privacy as related to treatment for mental illness and substance use disorders, focusing on privacy and information-sharing in the context of treatment. Recommendations are provided for reducing the risks of potential misuse of information and inappropriate disclosure, while simultaneously promoting patient safety and the quality of health care.

Publication Details

Journal/Publisher: California Healthcare Foundation
Publication Date: 2008

Course Creator

Ryan Gibson, CADC #123456

Target Audience

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about health care quality, behavioral health policy, patient safety, and health information privacy. It is appropriate for all levels of participants' knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Discuss the social and legal traditions of protecting health information.
  2. 2 Define and discuss HIPAA, FERPA, and the Privacy Rule as applicable to mental health professionals.
  3. 3 Discuss recommendations for mental health providers regarding the manual or electronic sharing of personal information related to treatment for mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

Disclosure to Learners

CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity – including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests).

The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity's planners, faculty, and the reviewer:

Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Material Authors
Course Creator

Ryan Gibson, CADC #123456 – There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

$9

Course Details

1 CE Hour
Reading Online
Course 102178

Availability

This course is retired. It is no longer available.

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