Teletherapy Across State Lines: Doing It Legally
We’ll explain if and how you can see a client in another state. Cross-state practice is more doable than therapists realize — especially during COVID.
Group Practices: HIPAA and Independent Contractors vs. Employees
When deciding on contractors vs. employees, getting an early understanding of HIPAA’s role in this choice may be more important than you think.
Improve Your Online Therapy Skills: Learn to Use Online Disinhibition Effect
The Online Disinhibition Effect arises in computer-mediated interactions. Working with ODE is essential to effective telemental health therapies.
Smartphone Hotspots For Telemental Health
Liath answers: Is it HIPAA-secure to use my phone or WiFi hotspot device in my practice? What about using it for telemental health sessions?
Telemental Health Documentation: 5 Things to Write Down
Documentation is the best! Good thing telemental health documentation needs some extra stuff. We even have a sample form you can use.
Your Questions Answered (About Telemental Health)
Can I do telemental health with clients in other countries? What does insurance want from therapists who work online? All these and more will be answered!
What is the “Cloud?”
In tech circles, “cloud” does have a rather specific meaning. For our purposes, however, we’ll define “the cloud” this way: “The Cloud” = “Other People’s Computers” Cloud services center around providing software services — and sometimes information storage services — on computers in well-connected data centers. Some Examples If you’re not sure whether or not […]
Keep ‘Em Separated: Unique Logins
Windows and Macintosh computers allow you to make separate user accounts for everyone who might use the device. The Windows Surface tablet also allows this. So wherever you can make separate accounts for people, you should do so. Keeping It Separated There are a couple advantages to creating unique user accounts for everyone who might […]
The Most Important Thing You’re Likely to Forget: Backups
As we’ve already stated several times in this training, therapists tend to be highly focused on the confidentiality of information and thus can easily forget about its availability. Antimalware, firewalls, and trusted WiFi can protect availability of information a little bit. However, the most reliable method, by far, of protecting information availability is to keep […]
Antimalware & Firewalls
If your computer touches protected health information at all, you want to make sure it is using antimalware software and a firewall. Also, at this point, let’s recognize that smartphones and tablets (e.g. iPads and Android tablets) are computers. So when we say “computer,” we mean everything that is computer-like. Antimalware Antimalware is software that […]