Patient information management in the massage therapists offices: a tabu?

Hello.

I am looking for information about how the massage therapists collect and organize their patients' information (the clinical one more than the administrative one), and for the moment I didn't find a lot of information about it, except this (quite old) post: http://massagemag.com/massage-blog/massage-collage/2009/08/13/how-i...

Would it mean that the subject is not seen as important for therapists?

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    Matthieu Blit

    Quite interesting to see the legal side of the theme. I suppose you are talking about the data privacy issues, how they are stored, accessed and transmitted.

    My question was more about the technical side of the data management, the processes and the tools therapists use to organize their information.

    I suppose there are policies and procedures for that, and that these could be taught by schools.

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    Daniel Cohen

    data storage of personal information by businesses is a major issue of the state regulations. Many of the same online services used for scheduling include the data collection and storage.

    I still think that teaching about professional resources and critical thinking in school would address this.

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    Matthieu Blit

    And it seems that some schools are teaching it. I am currently having a small chat with a professor from the Alliance for MAssage Therapy Education who is explaining that these issues are adressed by the course.