Mental health and substance abuse records are held separately in Kaiser Permanentes system as it is now; with KP HealthConnect, how limited is access to them? Who can see them?
A Mental and behavioral health specialists can see these records, according to their role. Other health professionals may gain access to the information in emergencies (e.g., an emergency medicine physician seeing an inappropriately sleepy, depressed person who may have attempted suicide will need to know what medications they have access to).
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