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  • Risk Management and Telehealth: What You Need to Know to Keep a Healthy Practice
    Self Study
    • Credit(s): 3 Telehealth
    • Course Number: AK20230606
    • Original Program Date: June 6, 2023
    • Duration: 2 hours 47 minutes
    • Access: Available for 5 months after Registration
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    • Non-Member Price
    • $75.00
    • Member Price
    • $55.00

  Description

Many behavioral health professionals have decided or are seriously considering continuing to serve their clients via telehealth. They have weighed the benefits and are ready to embark on a journey still new to some, which may represent the future of their practices.
 
NASW Assurance Services and the NASW Alaska Chapter bring you this workshop to review critical recommendations to help you mitigate potential risks and have a healthy practice.

Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the inherent risk management challenges of their telehealth practice.
2. Realize technology's impact on everyone's practice and the importance of following their profession's Code of Ethics and Technology Standards. 
3. Complete a risk assessment of their practice, identifying the most convenient method for delivery of services.
4. Understand the commitment to keep an ongoing learning model of telehealth and the technology platform to provide services.

  Credits

3 Telehealth  

  Faculty

  • Elizabeth (Betsy) Cauble, President-ElectBio
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    Elizabeth (Betsy) Cauble, President-Elect Bio

    Betsy retired from Kansas State University in May 2019. She served as Associate Social Work Program Coordinator from May 2015 to May 2019, following ten years as head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. During her 25 years at KSU, Dr. Cauble taught every course in the social work curriculum. Her prior experience includes serving as a child welfare administrator at Franklin County Children's Services in Columbus, Ohio, as director of a hospital social work department, as a family therapist, custody mediator, research project director, and foster parent.

    Betsy received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and her MSW and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest include social work practice, public policy, ethical behavioral health practice, and child welfare.  
     
    NASW Involvement:
    NASW Board Member (2004-2007)
    NASW Board Executive Committee (2006-2007)
    Chair NASW Membership Committee (2005-2007)
    NASW Board Representative to the National PACE Committee


    NASW Insurance Enterprise Involvement: 
    President Elected, NASW Insurance Company, Board Director NASW RRG
    President and Chair of NASW Assurance Services, Inc. Board of Directors (2012-2015)
    Director of NASW Assurance Services (2009-2012)
    Presenter for the NASW Assurance Services Risk Management Program

  • Dina Larsen, CPHRM, Asst. Vice President/Sr. Risk Analyst/Administrative SupervisorBio
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    Dina Larsen, CPHRM, Asst. Vice President/Sr. Risk Analyst/Administrative Supervisor Bio

    Dina Larsen has been with Western Litigation (currently Gallagher) since 2006. In her current role, Dina provides various risk and claim-related services to a large multi-hospital Risk Retention Group (RRG) and a Risk Retention Group for social workers. 

    Other of her responsibilities include assisting with claims and risk management; preparing statistical analysis and applicable reports reflecting claim and risk activity; interacting with risk managers at various facilities; participating in claims and risk subcommittee meetings; completing miscellaneous projects as requested; coordinating monthly risk management meetings in various locations throughout the U.S.; and serving as administrator for the online incident reporting system (R.L. Solutions) for several of the hospitals. 
     
    Dina also provides claim management and routinely answers calls on a national hotline service for the NASW Risk Retention Group. She also holds a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) designation, which is an exclusive certification offered by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for healthcare risk managers. Ms. Larsen spent 18 years working as the main paralegal for a medical malpractice group of attorneys. 

    She was responsible for the preparation and maintenance of medical record summaries for specific files; reviewing all pleadings filed with courts or hearing processes; confirming legal citations and document citations; responsible for the office docketing system to ensure compliance with calendar deadlines and court rules; and working with co-defense counsel and clients on document preparation and production, and other items needed.

  Materials

Final Telehealth NASW Alaska June 6 2023.pdf (34) (3 MB)
Example-of-a-Professional-Will (1) (1).pdf (2) (48 KB)
In Person Informed Consent edited on 2092022.pdf (2) (79 KB)
Insurance Solutions.pdf (1) (614 KB)
Risk Assessment Checklist.pdf (1) (536 KB)
Sample Social Media Policy.pdf (4) (144 KB)
Telehealth Informed Consent edited March 4 2022-3.pdf (3) (75 KB)
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