The "psychotherapy note exemption" as defined by HIPAA says that your psychotherapy notes must be separate at the beginning of a chart.
They can not be created later after entries have been made.
They must be in a separate file to be considered for the "exemption".
As such, they are not part of the clinical chart.
When you release a chart the notes stay with you.
Charts then, are divided into Initial Evaluation, and Progress Notesin one file and Psychotherapy Notes in another.
This actually is quite handy.
With separate notes, review of them before the next session is now easy.
Clinical Record Keeper™, Clinical Record Keeper Plus™ and Clinical Record Keeper-Mac™ have always separated these two categories.
Move between the two files effortlessly.
A major difficulty in many software programs is that you can't see the notes in sequence i.e., individual notes are in different places within the programs. That is not how I work and I will bet that isn't how you work either!
CRK programs solve that problem by making them in one file that scrolls.
You know exactly what happened when.
Movement in therapy is shown.
This file makes intelligent treatment documentation easier, let alone your own understanding of a case.
Clinical Record Keeper™,Clinical Record Keeper Plus™and Clinical Record Keeper-Mac™ are organized like a clinician works and thinks.
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