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Records Custodian Role
⛔️ Manager roles cannot enable this.
The records custodian role grants the user access to sensitive protected clinical information:
- Chart / session notes: can be viewed or printed
- Forms marked clinical (as well as non-clinical)
This user can read and print the session notes and documents of the patients that are treated by any provider you enable them for.
The records custodian role can be enabled for any provider or staff member in your practice. It's also possible to add a member to your group whose access is limited to ONLY be a records custodian.
The most common use cases for a records custodian are:
- A staff member responsible for auditing records of the therapists in the group
- A staff member you entrust to release records when a records request is made
In this Article:
Enabling Custodian Access
Enabling the Records Custodian role is a two-step process:
1. Enable the role
- From the Owner's account: Click Practice Settings (left menu)
- Click Staff (top tab)
- Click the staff member's name
- Navigate to the 'Roles' section, locate Records Custodian and enable the role.
2. Manage the specifics
Which providers will they have access to? This can be set to one provider, some, or all.
- From the same screen, click Manage Custodianships
- Then click
- Here you can define who they have access to
- That can be 1 provider, a few, or all
- You can also set an expiration date for record custodianship
- When done, click Save
Once saved, at anytime you can view or modify the access by clicking Manage Custodianships again under Roles
Viewing Records For Clients
Once enabled, the Records Custodian will have access to view records:
- Go to Clients (left menu)
- Click the client name
- Click Records (top tab)
From here, you can view the client's records for the provider(s) you have enabled custodian access to.
⚠️ Note: This is the same process a provider would use to access records, documented in our article here.
