Mental health information definition

Mental health information means oral, written, or otherwise recorded information which indicates the identity of a person receiving professional services, as defined in Iowa Code section 228.1(5), and which relates to diagnosis, course, or treatment of the person’s mental or emotional condition. Mental or emotional conditions include mental illness, mental retardation, degenerative neurological conditions, and any other condition identified in professionally recognized diagnostic manuals for mental disorders. “Substance abuse information” means information which indicates the identity, diagnosis, prognosis

Mental health information means oral, written, or recorded information which indicates the identity of an individual receiving professional services and which relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment of the individual’s mental or emotional condition.

Mental health information means a type of Health Care information that relates to all information and records compiled, obtained, or maintained in the course of providing services by a mental health service agency or mental health professional to Individuals who are receiving or have received services for mental illness. The term includes mental health information contained in a medical bill, registration records and all other records regarding the Individual maintained by Washington State, regional support networks and their staff and treatment facilities. The term further includes certain documents of legal proceedings or somatic health care information. For Health Care information maintained by a hospital or a health care facility or Health Care Provider that participates with a hospital in an Organized Health Care Arrangement, “information and records related to mental health services” is limited to information and records of services provided by a mental health professional or information and records of services created by a hospital-operated community mental health program. The term does not include Psychotherapy Notes.

Examples of Mental health information in a sentence

• NOTE: Mental health information may only be disclosed pursuant to a joint consent, see Section 23A.

• Mental health information and records are not available to anyone outside or within the University without the client’s express permission.

• Mental health information and records must be disclosed to Disability Rights California under certain circumstances.Due to the complexity of state requirements related to Disability Rights California, state entities are advised to consult with their legal counsel prior to developing and applying operational policies and procedures governing the use and disclosure of mental health records.

• Mental health information may be disclosed in a civil or administrative proceeding in which an individual eighteen years of age or older or an individual’s legal representative or, in the case of a deceased individual, a party claiming or defending through a beneficiary of the individual, offers the individual’s mental or emotional condition as an element of a claim or a defense.b. Mental health information may be disclosed in a criminal proceeding pursuant to section 622.10, subsection 4.

• Mental health information contained in case records may be shared with juvenile authorities, specified as court personnel, probation officers or prison review boards.

More Definitions of Mental health information

Mental health information means oral, written, or otherwise recorded information which indicates the identity of a person receiving professional services (as defined in Iowa Code section 228.1(8)) and which relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment of the person’s mental or emotional condition.

Mental health information means records, reports or other information about the provision of mental health or developmental disability services as defined in the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act [740 ILCS 110].

Mental health information has the same meaning as the term “confidential information” is defined in West Virginia Code Chapter 27, Article 3, as may be amended.

Mental health information means oral, written, or recorded information that indicates the identity of a person receiving professional services and which relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment or the person’s mental or emotional condition.

Mental health information means any written, recorded or oral information acquired by a mental health provider in attending a client in a professional capacity which:

Mental health information means information in any format collected or maintained concerning the mental health of an individual, living or deceased, and includes any of the following information:

Mental health information means oral, written, or otherwise recorded information that indicates the identity of a person receiving professional services (as defined in Iowa Code section 228.1(8)) and that relates to the diagnosis, course, or treatment of the person’s mental or emotional condition.