Digital Confidentiality According to Professional Ethics and HIPAA: A Heart-Centered Approach Level I

Educational Objectives

• Determine what the clinician needs to do to achieve compliance with HIPAA Security and HITECH mandates around transmission technology.
• Describe security standards like encryption and when we need them in clinical practice – legally, ethically and practically.
• Assess popular communications technologies for ethical, clinical and practical appropriateness for use with clients.

Ethics/Legal Documents Cited

• ACA Code of Ethics (2005)
• APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2002)
• NASW Code of Ethics (2008)
• HIPAA Administrative Simplification (2006)
• NASW and ASWB Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice (2005)
• NBCC Policy Regarding The Provision of Distance Professional Services (2012)
• APA Guidelines For the Practice of Telepsychology (2013)