TY - JOUR
KW - Automatic Data Processing
KW - Confidentiality
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Documentation/methods
KW - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
KW - Health Personnel/organization & administration
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Language
KW - Mental Health Services/manpower/organization & administration
KW - Organizational Culture
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Primary Health Care/manpower/organization & administration
KW - Psychology, Clinical/manpower
KW - United States
AU - P. Knowles
A1 - 
AB - Psychologists frequently collaborate in the care of patients managed in primary care. Communication with a patient's primary care team is important to ensure coordination and continuity of care. The communication is far from seamless. Although The Health Information Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA) is designed to promote sharing of clinical information while protecting patient confidentiality, unique problems arise when mental health records are included. Mental health records are subject to different regulations to protect the patient's confidentiality. Thus, what is communicated and how it will be accomplished are challenges. Further, psychologists and primary care providers often view documentation differently, resulting in different styles of documenting that may also impede coordinated care. Increasingly, health care systems are moving toward electronic medical records, creating greater opportunities for an integrated record. Improved communication through the record can keep other providers abreast of the mental health care being provided as well as suggestions they can use to reinforce the mental health care treatment plan.
BT - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
C5 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth; Healthcare Policy
CP - 1
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10880-009-9151-1
IS - 1
JF - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
N2 - Psychologists frequently collaborate in the care of patients managed in primary care. Communication with a patient's primary care team is important to ensure coordination and continuity of care. The communication is far from seamless. Although The Health Information Privacy and Portability Act (HIPPA) is designed to promote sharing of clinical information while protecting patient confidentiality, unique problems arise when mental health records are included. Mental health records are subject to different regulations to protect the patient's confidentiality. Thus, what is communicated and how it will be accomplished are challenges. Further, psychologists and primary care providers often view documentation differently, resulting in different styles of documenting that may also impede coordinated care. Increasingly, health care systems are moving toward electronic medical records, creating greater opportunities for an integrated record. Improved communication through the record can keep other providers abreast of the mental health care being provided as well as suggestions they can use to reinforce the mental health care treatment plan.
PP - United States
PY - 2009
SN - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
SP - 72
EP - 76
EP - 
T1 - Collaborative communication between psychologists and primary care providers
T2 - Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
TI - Collaborative communication between psychologists and primary care providers
U1 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth; Healthcare Policy
U2 - 19234866
U3 - 10.1007/s10880-009-9151-1
VL - 16
VO - 1573-3572; 1068-9583
Y1 - 2009
ER -