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Compliance & privacy · August 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Automated Emails Your Practice Should Send (and the Clinical Content They Must Never Contain)
Booking confirmations, 24-hour reminders, payment notices, and completion alerts — the automation set, plus the privacy rule that governs all of it.
Read the guideCompliance & privacy · 6 min
Psychotherapy Notes vs Progress Notes in Canada: What's Actually Protected?
The US 'psychotherapy notes' concept doesn't map cleanly to PHIPA. What Canadian clinicians should know about process notes, access requests, and the single-record reality.
August 7, 2026
Compliance & privacy · 7 min
Telehealth Therapy in Canada: Platform Requirements and Best Practices
What makes a video platform appropriate for psychotherapy: encryption, consent, location checks, emergency protocols, and cross-provincial rules.
July 21, 2026
Compliance & privacy · 8 min
PHIPA-Compliant Practice Management Software: A Checklist for Ontario Therapists
What PHIPA actually requires from your practice software: data residency, safeguards, audit trails, retention, and the questions to ask any vendor before trusting them with PHI.
July 3, 2026
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