
Computer Therapy and Managed Care
Under managed care your psychotherapy records are available
to insurers and employers and a therapist should notify the
patients accordingly. To avoid this breach in essential
confidentiality, computer-mediated therapy programs should
be developed that can be used at home and whose confidential
records are not available to insurers, employers, or managed
care companies.
Footnote -
It is par for the course that whatever I say here about
the issues of computer therapy enrages flamers who charge
me with advertising myself and my work. For a balanced
discussion of ethical and professional issues see
Ford,B.D.(1993) Computers in Human Behavior, 9:387-400.
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