Disclosures and other details regarding Wilshire/Valley Therapy Center’s use of TherapyNotes, TherapyFuel and related document technologies.
Wilshire/Valley utilizes TherapyNotes, a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record system designed to securely store and protect patient health information.
TherapyNotes is a popular web-based solution specifically designed for behavioral health professionals. The platform acts as an all-in-one hub for running a mental health practice.
It is widely used by psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and counselors to run their private practices or clinics. It incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) features in its data processing.
The following notice explains how that system’s TherapyFuel documentation assistance features may be utilized by your therapist and outlines your rights regarding the use of these tools.
No recording of sessions
Wilshire/Valley does not record therapy sessions for any reason.
No audio recordings, video recordings or artificial-intelligence-generated session recordings are created by Wilshire/Valley
Therapy sessions remain confidential and are documented solely through therapist-generated clinical documentation.
Wilshire/Valley does not utilize TherapyFuel Scribe or any “ambient listening” feature.
About TherapyFuel
TherapyFuel is an documentation-support feature within the secure TherapyNotes platform.
TherapyFuel may be utilized by your therapist for administrative documentation and time-management purposes only.
Therapists manually create and enter their own clinical documentation, observations, treatment interventions and clinical impressions.
TherapyFuel may assist in organizing, formatting, consolidating and structuring therapist-entered information into a completed clinical note.
TherapyFuel does not replace the therapist’s clinical judgment, assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning or professional decision-making.
Information processed through TherapyFuel remains within the secure, HIPAA-compliant TherapyNotes environment and is immediately deleted upon completion of note generation and documentation processing.
Information utilized by TherapyFuel is subject to the same privacy and security protections that apply to all patient records maintained within TherapyNotes.
Information processed through TherapyFuel is utilized solely to assist with documentation efficiency and administrative support.
TherapyNotes maintains HIPAA-compliant safeguards designed to protect confidential patient information. Any third-party vendors supporting TherapyFuel functionality are contractually required to comply with HIPAA privacy and security requirements.
Marketing and advertising safeguards
Any AI features utilized by TherapyNotes for company operations, product development or marketing purposes are completely separate from confidential patient records maintained by Wilshire/Valley.
Patient records maintained by Wilshire/Valley are not used for TherapyNotes marketing activities.
TherapyNotes does not use patient clinical records generated through Wilshire/Valley to train public AI models.
Questions or concerns
Please contact our admin team with questions or concerns or if you wish to opt out from any part of the above. Email: connect (at) wilshirecenter.net