Effective date : January 1, 2018
We want to ensure that your medical protected health information is secure with us. This notice contains information about how we will ensure that your information remains private. This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
The privacy of your medical information is important to us.
We are require by law to protect the privacy of your protected health information ("medical information"). We are also required to send you this notice about privacy practices, our legal duties and your rights concerning your medical information. We must follow the privacy practices that are described in this notice while it is in effect. This notice takes place at the date set forth on the top of this page and will remain in effect until we replace it. We reserve the right to change our privacy practices and the terms of this notice at any time, provided such changes are permitted by applicable law.
We may amend the terms of this notice at any time. If we make a material change to our policy practices, we will provide to you the revised notice. Any redivided notice will be effective for all health information we maintain. The fictive date of a revised notice will be noted. A copy of the current notice in effect will be available on our website www.dialtheDr.com. You may request a copy of the current notice at any time.
We collect and maintain oral, written and electronic information to administer our business and to provide services and information of importance to our patients. We maintain electronic and procedural security safeguards in the handling and maintenance of our patients' medical information, in accordance with applicable state and federal standards, to protect against risks such as loss, destruction, or misuse.
Treatment: We may disclose your medical information without your prior approval to another physician or healthcare provider working in our facility or otherwise providing your treatment for the purpose of evaluating your health diagnosing medial conditions, and providing treatment. Healthcare operations: We provide telemedicine services. We may use and disclose your medical information without your prior approval for healthcare operations. Healthcare operations include:
We may disclose your medical information to another medical provider subject to federal privacy protection laws as long as the provider has or had a relationship with you and the medical information is for that provider's healthcare quality assessment and improvement, performance, or fraud and abuse detection and prevention.
Your authorization: You (or your legal personal representative) may give us a written authorization to use your medical information to disclose it to anyone for any purpose. Once your give us authorization to release your medical information, we cannot guarantee the the person to whom the information is provided will not disclose the information. You may take back or revoke your written authorization at any time in writing, except if we have already acted based on your authorization. Unless you give us a written authorization we will not use of disclose your medical information for any purpose other than described in this notice. We will obtain your authorization prior to using your medical information for marketing, fundraising purposes or commercial use. Once authrhoiued you may opt out of and of these communications.
Family, friends and others involved in your care or payment of care: We may disclose your medical information to a family member or any person your involve in your care or payment of care. We will disclose only the medical information that is relevant to the person's involvement.
By signing up to Dial the Dr. LLC, you acknowledge, have read, and agreed to the practice's Notice of Privacy Practices which provides in detail the uses and disclosures of my protected health information.