Sharing Mental Health Notes with Patients: Webinar
In this webinar two of the nation’s top experts on “open mental health notes” cover what clinicians need to know about sharing therapy notes with patients, and the nuances associated with an upcoming federal mandate that requires visit notes be shared with patients.
Quick Links
About the presenters
Steven K. Dobscha, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests include suicide prevention; approaches to integrating psychiatric and primary medical care; treatment of chronic conditions including chronic pain in primary care, and patient engagement in care. Over the past several decades, he has provided clinical care in primary care settings, and developed co-located mental health-primary care teaching and clinical programs.
Stephen (Steve) F. O’Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD, is the OpenNotes specialist in Behavioral and Mental Health, and is Faculty in the Center of Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. Steve was the Social Work Manager for most of the behavioral health practices at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for many years, where he was also the Associate Director of the Ethics Support Service. Through his leadership, he began the first ever program in making behavioral health therapist notes readily available to patients through their personal computers in 2014. Steve has extensive teaching experience, numerous committee assignments including the Professional Review Task Force of NASW, Harvard Medical School’s Clinical Ethics and Organizational Ethics Consortiums and Harvard Medical School’s Ethics Leadership Group.
Webinar recordings
Full Webinar (55 min) |
Steve Dobscha, MD: Impacts of Open Notes In The Context of Mental Health Care, Lessons Learned From the VA (23 min) |
Steve O’Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD: The Experience of Opening Notes in the Context of Mental Health Care (17 min) |
Q&A with Cait DesRoches, DrPH, Steve O’Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD, and Steve Dobscha, MD (11 min) |
