Oftentimes, clients have questions about how their Personal Health Information (PHI) is handled when beginning therapy services or during the course of therapy.  Here at Grapevine Psychology, we are proud to use Simple Practice for our Electronic Health Record system (EHR), which offers you the tools available through your secure client portal.  Simple Practice and the staff at Simple Practice have most recently become the only cloud-based EHR platform in its category to to obtain the status of HITRUST CSF Cerification.What is HITRUST CSF Certification?“HITRUST CSF Certified status demonstrates that an organization has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. This achievement places SimplePractice in an elite group of organizations worldwide that have earned this certification. By including federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks, and incorporating a risk-based approach, the HITRUST CSF gives organizations a comprehensive and flexible framework of prescriptive and scalable security controls.” See SimplePractice’s HITRUST CSF® Certification Press Release 10/27/2020.What does this certification status mean for me or my therapy services at Grapevine Psychology?Grapevine Psychology is a paperless practice.  This means that almost all parts of the therapy interaction and experience with clients are located within the secure, HIPPA compliant, HITRUST CSF Certified, virtual walls of Simple Practice.This includes: paperwork, correspondence, scheduling, documentation, billing, and even Telehealth sessions. TL;DR: Every time you log into the Simple Practice Client Portal, you can expect the highest level of security measures regarding the handling of your personal information and services with Grapevine Psychology.  

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