Mental health care and remote telepractice:  What You Need to Know for HIPAA and State Licensure Law

Ten years’ worth of change in remote medicine has occurred in a matter of weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022.

Remote telepractice and mental health care have advanced in such a short time that what had previously taken many years.  Both patients and practitioners are equally motivated not to have face-to-face contact for therapy sessions.

This advanced webinar governs current HIPAA and relaxed privacy standards as applied to telepractice when “work from home” becomes “practice from home” for mental health treatment.  Even so, state confidentiality and telepractice laws continue in full force and effect.

Samples of state licensure laws and telepractice rules are reviewed as well as national guidelines in mental health telepractice for compliance. 

Finally, you will learn basic tips and techniques to defend your telepractice from privacy breaches and liability.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

• Basics of HIPAA privacy as applied to the telepractice of mental health
• When work from home becomes practice and treatment from home
• Current state of relaxed HIPAA enforcement for non-secure electronic patient communication
• Samples of state licensure laws and the telepractice of mental health
• National guidelines in mental health telepractice for compliance
• Basic tips and techniques to defend your telepractice from privacy breaches and liability.

Background:-

The background for this topic is mental health care in private practice, health care entities, hospitals, and the non-profit sector in health care.
This webinar covers the multiple objectives of how remote telepractice can be used in compliance with HIPAA and state licensure laws.

Why Should You Attend?

This advanced webinar also educates mental health care providers, including physicians, psychiatrists, non-physician practitioners, hospitals, and other mental health care providers on the updated laws for telepractice.

This advanced webinar gives information on updated HIPAA and state licensure laws for the provision of mental health care via telepractice.  This advanced webinar also answers practical questions about the utility of telepractice in mental health.

Who will benefit?

• Health care law attorneys
• Mental health practitioners’ offices
• Licensed health care practitioners in private practice in mental health
• Medical directors of mental health facilities
• Office managers and medical directors of private medical offices using telepractice
• Health care managers and executives
• Corporate counsel in health care
• Health care administrators
• University faculty in health care
• Allied health professionals in graduate-level medical education across the many health care professions
• Corporate compliance officers.