Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, we’re talking about choosing an EHR system and the information blocking (“Open Notes”) rule. 

We discuss how information blocking and HIPAA are different, which systems are covered by the new rule, how to know if switching systems makes sense, what the new rule enforces and what it doesn’t, coming cultural shifts in the way we use healthcare services, the different types of EHRs, training + supporting your team’s documentation, worldwide shifts in healthcare privacy, the nuances of psychotherapy notes vs. other healthcare notes, the future of personal health records, charging for releasing records, getting info from your current practice management system on their plans for the future, implications for prescribers, and our free CE event on this topic where you can learn more. 

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

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Resources

• CE Training: The “Open Notes” Rule and Your EHR Choice: Legal Compliance and Client Safety Now and in The Future with Eric Ström JD PhD LMHC; Rob Reinhardt, LCHMCS, M.Ed., NCC; and Roy Huggins, LPC NCC
• CE Training: How We Need to Give Clients Access to Their Records, Now and in the Future with Eric Ström, JD PhD LMHC, and Roy Huggins, LPC NCC
• Free Presentation: Federal “Open Notes Rule” explained by Eric Ström, JD PhD LMHC, and Roy Huggins, LPC NCC
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT consulting team and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)  
• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs (that also help you leverage your practice tech tools to optimize functionality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness!)  

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, Liath is joined by Liz Knutsen, one of our PCT Consultants, to talk about why we care about HIPAA security and risk management. 

We discuss the sacredness of keeping information private; we compare security practices to inoculation; the likelihood and impact of a breach; having a “why” that keeps us going; breaking down the compliance process into bite sized pieces; the guilt, anxiety, and vulnerability that come up when you’re not compliant; mindfulness during risk analysis; privacy regulations as human rights; the benefits of becoming HIPAA secure; being proactive vs reactive; the comfort and vulnerability of technology; client success stories; and some of the pain points of HIPAA security.

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs
• Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning done *for* you   
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)      

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, Liath is joined once again by Evan Dumas, a consulting team member at PCT, to chat about burnout.

We discuss how the pandemic has accelerated burnout, myths about burnout, systemic burnout,  creating a culture of well-being for your team as care providers, other-serving vs self-serving, practical ways to address burnout, vulnerability, creating collaborative solutions with your team, and leveraging tech to address burnout.

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

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Resources

Self-Care Track from PCT's Thriving and Making Comfort Conference (a pay-what-you-want on-demand event) includes "How to Survive Burnout" presentation and "Navigating Collective Trauma as a Mental Health Professional" presentation

Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)     

PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, Liath talks with Evan Dumas, one of our consulting team members at PCT, about risk analysis.

We discuss HIPAA security risk analysis, the practical utility of risk analysis, taking the judgment out of risk analysis, taking the fear out of HIPAA, the pandemic increasing feelings of vulnerability from a security perspective, reducing anxiety and overwhelm, how risk analysis can be empowering, in practice risk and compliance risk, preparedness, penguin metaphors, work/life boundaries, risk analysis as supporting wellness, ways to get started with this process, and Evan walks us through a sneak peek into a risk analysis with PCT. 

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning done *for* you   
• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC) 

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, Liath talks with Evan Dumas, one of the consulting team members at PCT, about utilizing the cloud in HIPAA appropriate and functionally impactful ways to reduce risk in group practice. 

We discuss local storage, cloud storage and maintaining availability of PHI, why you can trust cloud services and other third parties, the practical benefits of cloud storage over local storage, how using cloud services can reduce risk, digitizing PHI, backups + contingency plans, operational continuity, and Evan demystifies what the cloud really is.  

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

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For more, visit our website.

Resources

4 Recipes for HIPAA-Secure, Practice-Efficient Service Selection

Risk Analysis & Risk Mitigation Planning done *for* you

Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)     

PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, Liath talks with Evan Dumas, one of the consulting team members at PCT, about establishing a more positive relationship with tech as a practice tool. 

We discuss developing comfort with technology, sitting with tech discomfort, where tech discomfort comes from, how tech can meet functionality needs while not being a security problem, approaching technology from a place of curiosity, providing a clear and supportive structure where questions are encouraged, ways to foster a safe space for questions, and Evan busts some myths about being a tech comfortable person.

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

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For more, visit our website.

Resources

• PCT's Staff Training
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)
• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, we’re talking about bringing in outside helpers to your group practice. 

We discuss different types of outside help you can get (biller, VA, intake coordinator, etc.), Business Associate Agreements, establishing boundaries, service level agreements, access credentials, device security, scenarios where this agreement could come in handy, and we go through our own service level agreement form section by section to demonstrate what you could cover. 

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, we’re talking about clients’ rights of access to records.

We discuss catching up to rights of access norms as mental health clinicians, mainstream awareness of clients’ rights, GDPR (European privacy law), privacy as a human right,  psychotherapy notes/process notes, how things vary state to state, your right to withhold records, records in couples and family therapy cases, implications for the therapeutic alliance, and our upcoming live training and workshop with Eric Strom on this topic.

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• PCT CE Presentation + Practical Application Workshop: How We Need to Give Clients Access to Their Records, Now and in the Future 
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)
• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, we’re talking about choosing services that are holistically beneficial for group practice + support HIPAA compliance. 

We discuss facilitating and supporting HIPAA compliance, selecting tech that meets the needs of you + your team, how having systems that meet the needs of your practice can support HIPAA compliance, security circles, Business Associate Agreements, device management, choosing services based on your priorities, and we share group practice tech ‘recipes’ so you can mix and match the services you need.  

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• PCT Article: 4 Recipes for HIPAA-Secure, Practice-Efficient Service Selection
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)
• PCT's Group Practice HIPAA Security Programs

Welcome solo and group practice owners! We are Liath Dalton and Roy Huggins, your co-hosts of Person Centered Tech.

In our latest episode, we’re talking about new record-keeping regulations that will be impactful for group practice owners.

We discuss client rights of access to records, mental health privacy/confidentiality vs medical privacy/confidentiality, contexts for writing notes, open notes, ONC certified EHRs, information blocking, how to think about records going forward, the future of practice management systems, examples of what having open notes might look like, and our upcoming (Feb 12th) CE event on this very topic.

Listen here: https://personcenteredtech.com/group/podcast/

Stay tuned for future episodes!

For more, visit our website.

Resources

• FREE live CE event: Vital Group Practice Update on Upcoming HIPAA Changes, Open Notes, and Recent HIPAA Enforcement, 2021 Edition 
• Group Practice Office Hours (direct support and consultation service from PCT and Eric Strom, JD PhD LMHC)
• Staff HIPAA & Teletherapy Training