SimplePractice and HIPAA Compliance

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Vital Stats

HIPAA compliance with this product appears possible?: Yes.

Recommend for your HIPAA risk management needs?: Yes. Be sure to read the notes for a couple of important points.

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Relevant Product Characteristics

This product is designed specifically with mental/behavioral health professionals in mind.
The leadership or management behind this product includes at least one mental/behavioral health professional.

What Is This Product?

SimplePractice is a full-featured, web-based practice management tool that offers scheduling, client reminders, payment, treatment plan collaboration, and intake form management, among other things. For a full review of SimplePractice’s features, see Tame Your Practice’s review of SimplePractice. – https://tameyourpractice.com/blog/simplepractice-review

Our Impressions

Very positive. Our technical and compliance-related questions were addressed quickly and thoroughly. We also experienced the company as being highly responsive to our questions and feedback. When you’re working with a company that maintains records for you, the kind of responsiveness that SimplePractice displays is important.

Based on the information gathered in our review, we have no hesitations in recommending SimplePractice as appropriate for your risk management needs.

NOTE: SimplePractice has gone through a number of updates since we last reviewed it in depth. Our compliance possible and recommended review outcome of “HIPAA compliance possible? Yes” outcomes are current. Our usage notes have not yet been updated to address the feature additions — so the usage notes are not exhaustive. (1/8/21)

This product offers a free service tier or a free trial account:

We encourage all clinicians interested in this product to try out the free trial or experiment with the free tier to see if it suits your needs.

If you discover anything of concern that isn’t addressed in this review yet, please tell Liath about it at [email protected].

Click here for the free trial or free service tier information→. Important note about Business Associate Agreements: This product does not seem to offer a Business Associate Agreement for the free trial or free service tier. Do not use client information when testing the product.

This product has also been reviewed by:

Tame Your Practice: Rob Reinhardt of Tame Your Practice does highly-respected reviews of EHR products. While we review them primarily for risk management appropriateness, Rob reviews them for features and quality. Read Rob’s review of this product→

Caveats

Caveats are criticsms of the company or product that we feel are relevant to your risk management or other important considerations.

None

Notes

Notes cover points where the product can’t ensure compliance or ethical action for you. These help you know what your part of the compliance puzzle looks like when using this product. A high note count usually correlates with a feature-rich product, and not necessarily with a product that has problems.