Patient Medical Records and Client Confidentiality in Mental Health

Overview:

Learn to identify and apply differing and conflicting rules with respect to the specific health care practitioner, the specific health care facility practice, and the emerging rules and regulations for electronic medical records confidentiality, security, and disposition.

A basic overview of all medical records standards is necessary to set forth the confidentiality that exists now in the records of the health care practitioner.

In addition to these clinical requirements of a specific profession, additional state laws set forth the content and retention of other types of records, other than clinical records of a patient, that are also kept by the professional, such as supervisory agreements with other professionals subordinate to them as well as their own unique record content requirements.