Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as data fodder to the multibillion-dollar AI therapy industry.
Law now says clients have to be given access to their notes, you can probably access them through a web portal or by asking. That said I do not encourage people to do so regularly because it creates the wrong kind of feedback loop where you’re trying to influence the notes instead of following your therapist’s (hopefully) guidance.
But HIPAA rules apply to notes, for instance the therapists I support have 365 HIPAA or better (self hosting has its own problems and most therapists aren’t scaled for it).
So I suppose I’d have no hope of finding a therapist where notes are local-only on airgapped (eg. no nic, never online) devices and remote sessions, if offered, are over Signal?
HIPAA affects the technical implementation because the law requires certain features that signal lacks. Without those features, signal cannot be used for healthcare in the US.
Law now says clients have to be given access to their notes, you can probably access them through a web portal or by asking. That said I do not encourage people to do so regularly because it creates the wrong kind of feedback loop where you’re trying to influence the notes instead of following your therapist’s (hopefully) guidance.
But HIPAA rules apply to notes, for instance the therapists I support have 365 HIPAA or better (self hosting has its own problems and most therapists aren’t scaled for it).
So I suppose I’d have no hope of finding a therapist where notes are local-only on airgapped (eg. no nic, never online) devices and remote sessions, if offered, are over Signal?
Signal is not HIPAA compliant
i am not singal simp but whatever HIPAA complaint means, does not mean shit from tech perspective lol
singal can at least deliver data encrypted end to end unlike a lot of these SAAS
HIPAA affects the technical implementation because the law requires certain features that signal lacks. Without those features, signal cannot be used for healthcare in the US.
https://www.hipaajournal.com/is-signal-hipaa-compliant/
I don’t think you understand the law making processes within the us
Mine simply doesn’t take notes. We just walk and talk.