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The course: Telehealth: Legal and Ethical Implications for Mental Health Professionals by Melissa Westendorf
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- Course language: English
Providing telehealth services is a must for today’s clinician, allowing you to effectively expand your practice and reach clients even when they can’t come to your office.
But complicated ethical, legal and compliance issues can make utilizing telehealth seem risky.
How can you add this valuable tool to your practice without worrying you’ll make a mistake that could cost you your license and your livelihood?
This recording is your first step to becoming a confident and capable telehealth provider!
In just 3 hours you’ll learn how you can:
- Protect yourself from telehealth mistakes that could cost you your license
- Stay in compliance with interjurisdictional state laws when practicing across state lines
- Avoid violating HIPAA and HITECH requirements and protect clients’ privacy
Feel the confidence of knowing you can legally and ethically get started providing telehealth services!
- Identify the ethical principles and applications of ethical codes for telehealth services.
- Determine the HIPAA guidelines and how they apply to telehealth services.
- Assess inter-state issues associated with telehealth and how to stay in compliance.
Research about Telehealth Services
- Here to stay
- It works
- Benefits
Application of Ethical Codes
- Psychologists, Social Work, Professional Counselors
- Building competence
- Technology appropriateness examples
HIPAA
- HIPAA and HITECH
- HIPAA and Small Providers
- Violations and why they occur
State Law applications
- State Interests for the Pros and Cons for permitting telehealth
- Cohesive incoherence
- Examples of statutory guidance
- Risk Management Guidelines
- Interjurisdictional practice
Efforts to Improve Telehealth Interjurisdictional Practice
- PsyPact
- Others
- Checklist of questions to determine if you can practice across statelines
Case examples for using various forms of telehealth
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