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Monographs
<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>
Featured Publication
<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>
Seminar Materials
<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>
Rx for Risk Subscriptions
<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>
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<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>
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<<PRMS monographs>> are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare. PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>

 

 

Risk Management Monographs

PRMS monographs are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare – psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers, and office managers. In these materials, PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice. <<Online ordering is now available.>>

We also have individual articles and resources available on various topics. These articles are available in our catalog and can be purchased using the order form in the catalog or by calling (800) 245-3333, ext. 347.

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Beyond the Basics: Privacy and Security of Medical Information Under HIPAA
By: Professional Risk Management Services, Inc.
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Beyond the Basics provides in-depth and useful information that will assist you in meeting and exceeding Privacy Rule and Security Rule expectations. In your effort to protect medical records, turn to Beyond the Basics, your ultimate HIPAA resource! <<More information and excerpts>>
Seminar Educational Materials
If you are unable to attend one of our <<national risk management seminars>>, you may still order the seminar materials online. These seminars are designed to provide both a basic grounding in risk management concepts as well as more advanced practical applications of risk management strategies.
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Beyond the Basics: Privacy and Security of Medical Information Under HIPAA
Professional Risk Management Services, Inc. presents you with a compilation of our best risk management articles addressing HIPAA. From easy to use checklists to in-depth articles, Beyond the Basics answers all the tough questions concerning HIPAA, , such as:

- What happens if PHI is inadvertently disclosed or intentionally stolen?
- Does the Privacy Rule change parents' rights to access their child's PHI?
- Does the patient really have the right to access the entire record when state law only requires
  me to release a summary of the record?
- What are the rules for determining if state law is preempted by the federal regulations?
- And much more!

Beyond the Basics provides in-depth and useful information that will assist you in meeting and exceeding Privacy Rule and Security Rule expectations. In your effort to protect medical records, turn to Beyond the Basics, your ultimate HIPAA resource!Read excerpts from Beyond the Basics:
Table of Contents
Preface

Chapter Excerpt: "How to Handle Requests for Patient Information"
Chapter Excerpt: "HIPAA's Privacy Rule and Patient Access"

 

Risk Management Monographs

As a behavioral healthcare provider, you know that potential professional liability risks lurk around every corner. Patient suicides, confidentiality breaches, and adverse medication reactions are among the many events that can lead to a malpractice lawsuit. Even the most diligent professionals may have gaps in their risk management knowledge. Identify and manage your greatest liability risks with these valuable resources aimed at helping you with the risk issues routinely encountered in your professional practice.

PRMS monographs are now available on a variety of topics and are suitable for anyone in the practice of behavioral healthcare – psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers, and office managers. In these materials, PRMS maps out strategies and offers guidelines which can be applied to your practice.

All monographs are provided in a convenient and easy-to-use CD-ROM format. Order yours today! Shipping and handling included in price!

Billing Issues $10.00
- Practical Risk Management Pointers For Using Collections Agencies (RM-141)
- To Collect Or Not To Collect? Overdue Bills and Resulting Malpractice Claims (RM-167)
Boundary Issues $10.00
- Are You Crossing Therapeutic Boundaries? Twelve Danger Signs (RM-124)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Expansion of Boundary Violations (RM-MM-103)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry $15.00
- Experts Share Advice on Reducing Risks When Treating Potentially Violent Patients
(RM-105)
- Risk Management Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents
(RM-133)
- Child Custody Evaluations and Risk Management (RM-160)
Claims Examiner's Perspective $40.00
- Major Components of a Psychiatric Malpractice Trial and Related Risk Management Tips
(CL-101)
- The Litigation Process and Your Defense (CL-102)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Relevance of Records to Testimony (CL-EP-106)
- Examiner’s Perspective: What Are the Most Damaging Claims (CL-EP-107)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Treatment Guidelines (CL-EP-108)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Personal Digital Assistant and Prescribing Medications (CL-EP-109)
- Examiner’s Perspective: HIPAA & Preemption of State Law (CL-EP-110)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Elder Abuse (CL-EP-111)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Involuntary Admission (CL-EP-112)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Destroying Electronic Information (CL-EP-113)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Inadvertent Disclosures of Patient Information (CL-EP-114)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Medical Directors and Psychiatrists as Defendants in Nursing Home Cases (CL-EP-115)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Documenting the Informed Consent to Treatment Process (CL-EP-116)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Can Subpoena’s Be Ignored? (CL-EP-117)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Who Owns the Records? (CL-EP-118)
Closing A Private Practice $15.00
- Practical Pointers for Closing a Private Practice (RM-112)
- Practical Pointers for Terminating the Psychiatrist- Patient Relationship (RM-113)
- Retaining and Discarding Psychiatric Records (RM-150)
Confidentiality & Release Of Information $25.00
- Examiner’s Perspective: Inadvertent Disclosures of Patient Information (CL-EP-114)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Can Subpoenas Be Ignored? (CL-EP-117)
- Confidentiality of Substance Abuse Records (RM-145)
- Risk Management After a Patient Suicide: Confidentiality and Related Matters (RM-146)
- Responding to Requests for Patient Information, Subpoenas, & Court Orders (RM-152)
- Elements of an Office Confidentiality Policy (RM-153)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Confidentiality in an ER Situation (RM-MM-105)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Voluntary Compliance with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule (RM-MM-113)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Communication with Primary Care Providers (RM-MM-114)
- Myths & Misconceptions: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and Patient Access (RM-MM-115)
- Myths & Misconceptions: HIPAA Preemption Resources (RM-MM-119)
Cybermedicine & Telemedicine & Electronics $35.00
- Examiner’s Perspective: Personal Digital Assistant and Prescribing Medications (CL-EP-109)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Destroying Electronic Information (CL-EP-113)
- Keeping Risk Management Current with Electronic Devices & Practical Pointers for Risk Management Issues Created by the Use of Electronics (RM-130)
- Telemedicine: The Next Generation of Care (RM-131)
- Risk Management in Cyberspace (RM-138)
- Practical Pointers for the Practice of Cybermedicine (RM-139)
- Electronic Prescribing (RM-140)
- Electronic Health Records - Look Before You Leap (RM-179)
- Myths & Misconceptions: E-mail Risk Management (RM-MM-109)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Electronic Medical Records (RM-MM-118)
Forensic Issues $30.00
- Major Components of a Psychiatric Malpractice Trial and Related Risk Management Tips (CL-101)
- The Litigation Process and Your Defense (CL-102)
- Risk Management Practical Pointers for Psychiatric Forensic Practice (RM-127)
- Dueling Duties: Alternatives to Traditional Direct Patient Care Can Cause a Conflict of Obligations (RM-148)
- Child Custody Evaluations and Risk Management (RM-160)
- Malpractice Liability for Forensic Activities: Liability in the Absence of a Treatment Relationship (RM-166)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Treating v. Forensic Role (RM-MM-102)
Informed Consent $25.00
- Examiner’s Perspective: Treatment Guidelines (CL-EP-108)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Documenting the Informed Consent to Treatment Process (CL-EP-116)
- Informed Consent In Medication Management - A Joint Process (RM-128)
- Informed Consent - More Than a Piece of Paper (RM-154)
- Documentation of Informed Consent: When Should Use of a Form Be Considered (RM-172)
Medications $35.00
- Examiner’s Perspective: Treatment Guidelines (CL-EP-108)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Personal Digital Assistant and Prescribing Medications (CL-EP-109)
- Legal and Risk Management Concerns Related to the Use of Non-FDA Approved Drugs in the Practice of Psychiatry (RM-119)
- Some Practical Pointers for Off-label Use of an Approved Drug (RM-120)
- Factoring Alternative and Complimentary Medicine into Patient Histories (RM-121)
- Risk Management and Medication Prescribing/ Administering (RM-136)
- Electronic Prescribing (RM-140)
- Prescribing Scheduled Controlled Substances (RM-170)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Prescriptions for Non- Patients (RM-MM-107)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Pharmacy Benefits Letter (RM-MM-110)
Myths & Misconceptions $40.00
- Myths & Misconceptions: Being Drawn Into a Suit (RM-MM-101)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Treating v. Forensic Role (RM-MM-102)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Expansion of Boundary Violations (RM-MM-103)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Renting Space (RM-MM-104)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Confidentiality in an ER Situation (RM-MM-105)
- Myths & Misconceptions: A Perfect Record (RM-MM-106)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Prescriptions for Non- Patients (RM-MM-107)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Record Storage (RM-MM-108)
- Myths & Misconceptions: E-mail Risk Management (RM-MM-109)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Pharmacy Benefits Letter (RM-MM-110)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Observers (RM-MM-111)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Reporting Elderly Drivers (RM-MM-112)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Voluntary Compliance with HIPAA’s Privacy Rule (RM-MM-113)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Communication with Primary Care Providers (RM-MM-114)
- Myths & Misconceptions: HIPAA’s Privacy Rule and Patient Access (RM-MM-115)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Electronic Medical Records (RM-MM-118)
- Myths & Misconceptions: HIPAA Preemption Resources (RM-MM-119)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Selling Products From Your Office (RM-MM-120)
Records & Documentation $35.00
- Examiner’s Perspective: Relevance of Records to Testimony (CL-EP-106)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Destroying Electronic Information (CL-EP-113)
- Examiner’s Perspective: Who Owns the Records? (CL-EP-118)
- Practical Pointers for Psychiatric Records (RM-110)
- Contents of a Psychiatric Record (RM-111)
- Retaining and Discarding Psychiatric Records (RM-150)
- Electronic Health Records - Look Before You Leap (RM-179)
- Myths & Misconceptions: A Perfect Record (RM-MM-106)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Record Storage (RM-MM-108)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Electronic Medical Records (RM-MM-118)
Supervision/Collaborative Treatment Arrangements $30.00
- Supervision of Medical and Non-Medical Mental Health Care Professionals/Providers (RM-116)
- Office Staff, Risk Management and You (RM-117)
- Office Sharing and Professional Liability Risks (RM-118)
- Supervision of Nurse Practitioners (RM-157)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Being Drawn Into a Suit (RM-MM-101)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Renting Space (RM-MM-104)
- Myths & Misconceptions: Communication with Primary Care Providers (RM-MM-114)
Suicide & Suicidal Patients $25.00
- Examiner's Perspective: What are the Most Damaging Claims? (CL-EP-107)
- Examiner's Perspective: Involuntary Admission (CL-EP-112)
- Practical Pointers For Managing Suicidal Patients (RM-122)
- Risk Management After A Patient Suicide: Confidentiality And Related Matters (RM-146)
- Lessons To Be Learned: What Allegations in Post-Suicide Malpractice Lawsuits Can Teach About Risk Management Strategies (RM-159)
 
Termination of Treatment $10.00
- Practical Pointers For Terminating the Psychiatrist-Patient Relationship (RM-113)
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Managing Termination Risk (RM-114)
   
 

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