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- “Ransomware” and your computer
- ‘Single Payer Healthcare Would Save Us $Billions’ Study Shows
- 42 Months post-Katrina: Where are health records?
- 5 Clues That Its Time for a Vacation
- A Model to Follow
- A Patient’s Right to Access Their Health Data
- A Voice That Carries: Empowering fathers to be a positive influence in the lives of their daughters
- Acquisition, Retention, and Long-Term Customer Care
- Activism: 101
- Add Newtown, CT to the Very Sad List
- Affordable Healthcare: How to make it work
- Alphabet Soup: HITSP, CCHIT, ONCHIT, SNOMED CT
- Anxiety, Anticipation, Excitement: Prelude to . . .
- APA & Climate Change: What psychology can do
- APA and Public Education in Behavioral Health
- APA Convention in Orlando: Customers, colleagues, and more
- Are your passwords HIPAA secure?
- ARRA and Mental Health EHR Software
- ARRA’s New Privacy and Security Requirements
- As We Approach the Thanksgiving Holiday
- Behavioral Health Administrative Workers: What are your employees worth?
- Behavioral Health EHR: Dream or Reality, Obstacle or Asset
- Behavioral Health EMR Systems Learn to Cooperate: A sneak peek at interoperability
- Behavioral Health Interventions Reduce Cost of Medical Care
- Beyond Backup: Creating an image of your hard drive
- Bike MS…and fundraising for healthcare
- Bits of News for Behavioral Health Providers
- Brain 2013
- Brain Training: What is it and does it work?
- Bullying, Privacy, Decency: Where do we stand?
- Business Associates: Are you covered?
- Caregiving and Caregivers
- Caregiving Revisited
- Caring for the Caregiver: 5 Self-care Tips
- Case Management with Email Messaging
- Change in Healthcare is Upon Us…Law or not
- Change is in the air! Are you ready?
- Change: How do you respond?
- Cheap Productivity Booster: Add a monitor
- Clean Sweep, Fresh Start
- Clinical Decision Support: Is Watson up to it?
- CMS completes second round of ICD-10 end-to-end testing
- CMS Notices on ICD-10 Transition Become More Concerned
- CMS: Are you familiar with their newsletters and eLists?
- Collaborative Documentation: New National Council Webinar
- Congress Throws a monkey wrench into ICD-10 Implementation
- Consider the Source
- Contractor vs. Employee: How does your organization decide?
- Creativity: Running out of ideas…
- Daemon: Thought-provoking book by Daniel Suarez
- Data Safety, Consent to Release, and EMRs
- Data Security, Backup, and the HITECH Law
- Death and EMRs: Disruptive events?
- Decision Making 101
- Dismantling Habitual Behavior
- Do You Own Your Patient Records?
- Doom for health insurers?
- E-prescribing and a Behavioral Health EHR: Where to from here?
- Electronic Claim Filing for Secondary Insurance
- Electronic Permanence: Changing records and releases
- Email Overload: How to avoid email bankruptcy
- Emergency Alert System Test: Share with your clients
- EMR Certification Picture Gets Enlarged
- EMR Variations: Is certification necessary?
- EMR, Decision Support and Modern Human Thinking
- EMRs, PHRs, Patient Portals…and your privacy
- Encryption of Backups: Must I?
- Energy at Work: What recharges you?
- Enjoy your holiday now . . . not when you get there!
- Evidence Based Treatment and Psychology
- Favorite Technology Tools
- February is Heart Health Month
- Fines as Motivators: How do they affect your actions?
- FTC Red Flag Rule: Does it apply to you?
- Get Out of HIPAA Jail Free
- Global Warming Revisited
- Goodbye, Mr. Jobs: Thanks for all you’ve done
- Government Entities are not sheltered from HIPAA requirements
- Gratitude
- Grow Your Brain: Mindfulness Meditation, the Relaxation Response and Yoga Nidra
- Habits, Habits, Habits: How do they affect your life?
- Happiness and Optimism: Enhancing mental and physical health
- Has the U.S. Become an Anti-Scientific Nation?
- Health Care Reform and Behavioral Health
- Health Insurance Industry: Where is it going?
- Health Insurance: How do you feel about yours?
- Healthcare Reform a National Priority?
- Healthcare Reform in 2011
- Healthcare Reform: What part will you play?
- Healthcare Reform: Where does mental health fit in?
- Heathcare.gov Struggles in First Weeks
- HHS Releases Model Notice of Privacy Practices
- High Tech/Low Tech: Energy Use Balancing Act
- HIPAA at 20: Administrative simplification?
- HIPAA Breach Fines Grow
- HIPAA Compliance Part II: Cloud Security and Cyberinsurance
- HIPAA Compliance: How are you managing privacy and security?
- HIPAA Final Rule Finally Released
- HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule Now in Effect
- HIPAA Omnibus Rule: How much time have you spent?
- HIPAA Privacy Requirements: Serious business
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: Communicating with Family and Friends
- HIPAA, Privacy and Security ‘in the Cloud’
- HITECH Act, Psychotherapy Notes and Test Results
- Holidays, Marker Events, Celebrations
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: E.C.E. 101
- How much control do you want over your health data?
- How patients can safeguard their PHI
- How to Choose an EMR…and other pressing questions
- How’s Your Compliance Program Coming Along?
- How-To Request Help through the On-line Help Desk
- How-To Use Keyboard Shortcuts in SOS Suite of Products
- ICD-10 Challenges Behavioral Health Providers
- ICD-10 Implementation
- ICD-10 Implementation Rule Announced . . . Again
- ICD-10 Strategy: Be prepared
- ICD-10 Testing and Countdown to October 1, 2015
- ICD-10 Transition: October 1, 2015
- ICD-10 Use Moves Smoothly
- ICD-10: How will the change affect your life?
- ICD-10: What now?
- Identity Theft and Consumer Scams: What you need to know
- Implementing Evidence Based Practices
- Implementing New Practices: Are you fast or slow?
- Incorporating Behavioral Health Data into Primary Care Records
- Information Explosion
- Information Overload: TMI
- Inspiration, the Natural World, and Mental Health
- Insurance company hacks may have a positive outcome
- Integrated Medical and Mental Health Care
- Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
- Integrating Behavioral Health into the Healthcare Home
- International Women’s Day 2016: #PledgeForParity
- It’ll Never Happen To Me…
- License to……
- Managed Care Organizations Oppose Parity
- Managing My Stress: No blog posts until September 30
- Meaningful Use & Behavioral Health Providers
- Measuring the Quality of Mental Health Treatment
- Medicaid Shrinkage: Innovation or reaction?
- Medical Identity Theft: Fastest growing type of fraud
- Medicare Fraud: CMS engages patients in fighting fraud
- Mental Health and e-Health News Bits
- Mental Health Billing and the ICD-10
- Mental Health Organizations Not Immune from HIPAA Fines
- Mental Health Parity Toolkit
- Mental Health Parity….finally
- Mental health practice and the financial crisis
- Mindfulness, Measurement, and Synchronicity
- Mobile Data Security a Big Concern
- More on HIPAA Security: Safe Email
- Motivation: How do we generate it?
- Moving with change
- Multitasking and Time Wasting
- Must-Read Novels for 2012: Daemon and FreedomTM
- National Wildlife Week: A walk on the wild side
- New Blog Strategy: Short, targeted posts….States prep for health information exchange in emergency
- New CMS-1500 Forms Required Soon
- New Computer? Be prepared…
- New IOM Report: Best care at lower cost
- New Phone Systems: Frustrations of an impatient newbie
- New SOS Project: Product How-To’s
- New Year . . . New Plan
- News from the Front: SATVA, BH-EHR, FTC
- No Maintenance Required
- Now Open for Enrollment: Health Insurance Marketplace
- OCR Plans Wider Investigation of HIPAA Breaches Affecting Fewer Than 500
- Office for Civil Rights Launches Phase 2 of HIPAA Audit Program
- ONC Releases Updated Security Risk Assessment Tool
- Ongoing HIPAA Care: What is your plan?
- Online Dating: Positive or negative for your behavioral health clients
- OpenNotes Project: Where does mental health fit in?
- P.S. on Gun Violence in our Lives
- Parity Act Slow to Catch On
- Parity Interim Final Rule Guidance Released
- Patient Consent for Exchange of Information
- Patient Privacy in an Emergency: New HIPAA reminders
- Payer News . . . Plus Brief Hiatus in Posting
- Performance-Based Compensation: What is your plan?
- Personal vs. Professional: Social Networking Sites
- Perspectives on Stress: Is it all bad?
- Phase 2 HIPAA Audits Are Under Way
- PHI Leaks: The Insider Threat
- PHI Security: How aware are you?
- PHI Thieves Are Usually After Financial Information
- PHRs, EMRs, Data Security and Other News
- PQRS and Psychologists: 2014 data
- PQRS Intro
- Prevention & Self-Care: Essential to good health
- Prevention and Pain: A major way to save money
- Primary and Behavioral Healthcare Integration
- Privacy and Security in Windows 10: HIPAA issues?
- Privacy: Where are you now?
- Professional Identification and Behavioral Health Providers
- Psychiatric CPT Codes Changing in 2013
- Psychiatry CPT Codes for 2013
- Psychologists and EMR: Movement forward
- Psychology & Climate change: Risk perception
- Psychology Podcasts: Current info on the Internet
- Racism in America: How I contribute
- Ransomware, HIPAA, and You
- Records Clean Up: What are your policies and procedures?
- Red Flags Rule Revisited; Meaningful Use; Remote Tx
- Reflections on the Horrible Hundred
- Remote Access to PHI Subject of New ONC Initiative
- Remote Conversations: How do you do it?
- Remote Health Services: Will behavioral health be a player?
- Resolutions: 2012
- Resources for Behavioral Health Providers
- Resources on Post-Storm Trauma, CPT Codes, Veterans’ Services and More
- SAMHSA Listening Session Important for SA Providers
- SATVA to hold Interoperability Conference
- Secondary Insurance and Medicare
- Security and Backup: Yes…backup, again!
- Self-Awareness and Personal Responsibility
- Sensitive Data Security: Beyond HIPAA
- Sharing Mental Health Information: HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance
- Sharing Your Personal Health Data
- Simply Put: Simplify
- Single Payer Systems: U.S. Medicare and Canadian Medicare
- Sleep Deprivation: The cost
- Smartphone Apps for Behavioral Health: Are you connected?
- Social Media, Data Breaches and Behavioral Health PHI
- Social Media, Text Messages, Twitter: A generational divide
- SOS At Large Blog
- SOS-at-Large: Our top 10 blog posts
- Spring Fever Has Always Been Real for Me
- Square Foot Gardening: Self-care modality
- Starting the new year
- Stress in America: APA’s 2015 survey on the effects of discrimination
- Stress: APA’s 2009 Survey
- Successful Integrated Care: Behavioral health in primary care practices
- Suicide Prevention Week
- Technology frustrations . . . and dangers
- Technorati link
- Telehealth: Is this a legitimate way to provide treatment?
- Telehealth: Primary or adjunct healthcare service
- Teleheath, eHealth, and Outsourcing: Where are we going?
- Telemental Health: Is this your next way of providing services?
- Telephone Systems: Headaches Revisited
- Telepsychology and Internet Based Therapy Revisited
- Thanksgiving: Thanks to you!
- Thanksgivings: First and Current
- The Autism Spectrum
- The big toe is in…
- The Day the Earth Stood Still: Humans & our planet
- The Devil and Database Encryption
- The Healthcare Experience….Firsthand
- The Indispensible Data Backup
- The Internet of Things (IoT): Where do you touch it?
- Thoughts on the Quality of Death and Dying: A personal reflection
- Three things you need to know about mental health billing in 2012
- Trauma-informed Care . . . for most of your clients
- Turbulence Ahead in the Behavioral Health Marketplace
- Twitter Strugglers Are Not Alone
- Two Quick Notes: On Parity and HIPAA for Business Associates
- U.S. Healthcare…Privilege, Poverty and Pain
- UCLA and WellPoint Fined for Data Breaches
- Updated Behavioral Health ICD-10 Codes
- Updates, New Information and New Staff
- Vacation and your mental health
- Vacation Time: Storm before the calm
- Violence in our Lives: What to do?
- Violence, Fear and our Biases
- Wal-Mart and Mental Health EMR: Unlikely
- What happens to your digital life after your life?
- What Uses of Health Data Does HIPAA Allow?
- What’s Big Data Got To Do With It?
- Where is the Consumer in Health IT?
- Where’s the Behavior in Healthcare?
- Who’s Making Money from Healthcare Reform?
- Will Your Organization Weather a Storm…or Other Catastrophe?
- Workflow and EMR: How do you do it?
- Yoga: Physical and Mental Health
- Your Health Information: Where do you want it?
