澳门赌场在线娱乐药学/护理专业 & 医疗诊所私隐惯例通知
This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed 以及如何获得这些信息. Please review it carefully.
If you have any questions about this notice, please contact the Privacy Officer by telephone at (570) 408-4554 or mail: Privacy Officer, Wilkes University, 84 West South 18766年宾夕法尼亚州澳门赌场在线娱乐-巴雷街.
Who Will Follow This Notice
This notice describes 澳门赌场在线娱乐药学/护理专业 and Medical Clinic (collectively, the "Programs") practices for protecting and using medical information about you.
我们关于医疗信息的承诺
We understand that information about you and your health is personal. We are committed 保护你的医疗信息. 我们创建了一个关怀和服务的记录 you receive to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements. This notice applies to all of the records of your care generated by the Programs.
This notice tells you about the ways in which we may use and disclose information about you. It also describes your rights and certain obligations we have regarding 医疗信息的使用和披露.
We are required by law to: make sure that health-related information that identifies you is kept private; give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to medical information about you; and follow the terms of the notice that is currently in effect.
我们如何使用和披露您的医疗信息
The following categories describe the ways that we use and disclose health-related information. For each category of uses or disclosures we will explain what we mean and try to give some examples. 并不是每一个类别的使用或披露都将被列出. However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories. 请注意，如果你的记录中包含心理治疗 notes, we will not disclose any such psychotherapy notes without first obtaining your written consent.
For Treatment
We may use and disclose information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose information about you to physicians, nurses, technicians, medical students, or other personnel who are involved in your care (For example, a therapist treating you for your brain injury may need to know if you have diabetes 因为糖尿病可能会减缓愈合过程.). 我们也可以分享医疗信息 about you in order to coordinate the things you need, such as prescriptions and lab work. We also may disclose medical information about you to people outside the Programs who may be involved in your medical care, such as family members, clergy or others 谁提供的服务是你护理的一部分.
For Payment
We may use and disclose information about you so the treatment and services you receive can be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company or a third party. We may also tell your health plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment.
For Health Care Operations
We may use and disclose information about you for normal business operations. These uses and disclosures are necessary to run the Programs and make sure that all of our patients receive quality care (For example, in the course of quality assurance and utilization review activities, we may use medical information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our personnel in caring for you.). We may disclose medical information to "business associates" who provide contracted services such as accounting, legal representation, claims processing, accreditation, and consulting. 如果我们向商业伙伴透露医疗信息，我们 will do so subject to a contract that provides that the information will be kept confidential. We may also combine medical information about many patients to decide what additional services we should offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain new treatments are effective. We may also disclose information to physicians, nurses, technicians, medical students, and other personnel for review and learning purposes. We may also combine the medical information we have with medical information from other facilities to compare how we are doing and see where we can make improvements in the care and services we offer. 我们可能会删除识别您的信息 medical information so others may use it to study health care and health care delivery 还不知道具体的病人是谁.
Follow-up Phone Calls
As part of your treatment plan, there may be times that you will be contacted by the Program staff via telephone after you have had service at our clinic or from a member of the pharmacy program for purposes of customer satisfaction or the like.
Follow-up Letters
The Provider may submit test results to you by sending you a letter in the mail with such results. The Provider may also send such results to your primary care doctor.
Treatment Alternatives and Health-Related Benefits and services
We may use and disclose information to recommend or tell you about treatment alternatives and health-related benefits or services that may be of interest to you.
参与您的护理或支付您的护理的个人
Unless you object, we may release information about you to a friend or family member 谁参与了你的医疗护理. 我们也可能向某人提供信息 helps pay for your care. 此外，我们可能会披露您的医疗信息 to an entity assisting in a disaster relief effort so that your family can be notified 关于你的状况，状态和位置.
Research
Under certain circumstances, we may use and disclose information about you for research purposes. All research projects are subject to a special approval process that evaluates a proposed research project and its use of medical information, trying to balance the research needs with patients' need for privacy of their medical information. Before we use or disclose information for research, the project will have been approved through this research approval process; however, we may disclose information about you to people preparing to conduct a research project to help them look for patients with specific medical needs, so long as the information they review does not leave Program offices. When our staff conducts a research project, in which they look back at old medical records, your personal information will not be disclosed outside the organization 你的身份也不会出现在任何报告中. 如果一个研究项目是在哪里进行的 your information cannot be held confidential, a separate process is in place for you 同意进行这类研究.
Service Excellence
We may follow up your visit with us by sending to the address listed in your records a brief written survey about your satisfaction with the level of service provided to you. In some cases, the survey may be conducted by telephone or e-mail using the 医疗记录中列出的联系信息. In some instances, your name may be passed on to members of the service excellence team to investigate a complaint or corroborate an incident.
Marketing/Fundraising
We will not use patient records to market services or to engage in any marketing or 代表本计划或任何第三方的筹款努力.
As Required By Law
We will disclose information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law.
避免对健康或安全的严重威胁
We may use and disclose information about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. Disclosures would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat.
Special Situations
Organ and Tissue Donation
If you are an organ donor, we may release information to organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye or tissue transplantation or to an organ donation 为器官或组织捐赠及移植提供便利.
Military and Veterans
If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release information about you as required by military authorities. 我们也可能发布有关外国军事人员的信息 送交外国军事当局.
Workers' Compensation
We may release information about you for workers' compensation or similar programs. These programs provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.
Public Health Risks
We will disclose information about you for public health activities as required by law. 这些活动一般包括以下内容
- 预防或控制疾病、伤害或残疾;
- to report births and deaths;
- to report child abuse or neglect;
- 报告药物反应或产品问题;
- 通知人们可能正在使用的产品被召回;
- to notify a person who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition; and
- to notify the appropriate government authority if we believe you have been the victim 虐待、忽视或家庭暴力.
Health Oversight Activities
We will disclose information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with applicable laws.
Lawsuits and Disputes
If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose information about you 响应法院或行政命令. 我们还可能披露有关的信息 you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if satisfactory efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.
Law Enforcement
We may release information if asked to do so by a law enforcement official (a) in response to a court order, subpoena, warrant, summons or similar process; (b) to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; (c) about the victim of a crime if, under certain limited circumstances, we are unable to obtain the patient agreement; (d) about a death we believe may be the result of criminal conduct; (e) about criminal conduct; and (f) in emergency circumstances to report a crime; the location of the crime or victims; or the identity, description or location 犯罪的那个人.
验尸官，验尸官和葬礼主管
We will release information to a coroner or medical examiner to identify a deceased 人或确定死亡原因. 我们也会在葬礼上发布消息 董事在必要时履行其职责.
国家安全和情报活动
We may release information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, and other national security activities authorized by law.
Protective Services for the President of the United States and others
We may disclose information about you to authorized Federal officials so they may conduct special investigations and provide protection to the President or other officials and dignitaries.
您对您的医疗信息的权利
You have the following rights regarding the medical information we maintain about you:
Right to Inspect and Copy
You have the right to inspect and copy medical information that may be used to make decisions about your care (usually, this includes medical and billing records but 不包括心理治疗笔记). 检查和复制医疗资料 may be used to make decisions about you, you must submit your request in writing to the Privacy Officer. 如果您要求获得信息的副本，我们可能会收取费用 for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request. If your PHI is maintained in an electronic health record, you also have the right to request that an electronic copy of your PHI be sent to you or to another individual entity. We may charge you a reasonable cost based fee limited to the labor costs associated 传送电子健康记录.
We may deny your request to inspect and copy your medical information in certain limited circumstances. If you are denied access to medical information, you may request that the denial be reviewed. Another licensed health care professional chosen by the organization 会审查你的请求和拒绝吗. 负责审查的人不会 做一个拒绝你请求的人. 我们会遵从检讨的结果.
Right to Amend
If you feel that medical/rehabilitation information we have about you is incorrect 或不完整，您可以要求我们修改信息. You have the right to request an amendment for as long as the information is kept by or for the Programs.
To request an amendment, your request must be made in writing and submitted to the 联络私隐主任，地址如上文所列. 此外，你必须提供一个理由 that supports your request.
We may deny your request for an amendment if it is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request. 此外，如果您提出要求，我们可能会拒绝您的请求 us to amend information that
- was not created by us, unless the person or entity that created the information is 不能再作出修正的;
- is not part of the medical information kept by or for the Programs;
- is not part of the information which you would be permitted to inspect and copy; or
- is accurate and complete.
对披露进行会计处理的权利
You have the right to request an accounting (list) of certain types of disclosures 我们有关于你的医学资料. We are not required to account for certain disclosures such as: disclosures you authorize, disclosures to carry out treatment, payment or health care operations, and disclosures to persons involved in your care; provided, however, that if your information is maintained in an electronic health record, and if the Programs have made disclosure of your information through the electronic health record for treatment, payment and/or health care operations purposes, you have a right to request an accounting of such disclosures that were made during the previous three years.
To request an accounting of disclosures, you must submit your request in writing to the Privacy Officer. 您的请求必须说明一个时间段，可能会更早 than six years prior to the request date (three years in the case of information maintained in an electronic health record). 你的请求应该表明你想要什么形式 清单(例如，纸上的或电子的). The first list you request within a 12-month period will be free. 如需附加清单，我们可能会向您收取费用 of providing the list. 我们会通知你有关的费用，你可以选择 to withdraw or modify your request at that time before any costs are incurred.
Right to Request Restrictions
You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on our use or disclosure of information about you for treatment, payment or health care operations. You also have the right to request a limit on the information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care, like a family member or friend (For example, you could ask that we not use or disclose information about a surgery you had, or you could ask that information about you not be included in the facility directory.).
If you paid out-of-pocket for a specific item or service, you have the right to request that information relating to such item or service not be disclosed to a health plan for purposes of payment or health care operations, and we must honor such a request. However, we are not required to agree to other restrictions that you request. If we do agree to a requested restriction, we will comply with your request unless the information 是否需要为您提供紧急治疗.
If you want to request a restriction, you must complete a "Request to Invoke/Revoke Restrictions on Disclosure of Protected Health Information" form available from the 程序或以书面形式向隐私官提交您的请求. The written request must include
- 你想限制哪些信息;
- whether you want to limit our use, disclosure or both; and
- to whom you want the limits to apply (for example, disclosures to your spouse or other family members).
要求保密通信的权利
You have the right to request that we communicate with you in a certain way or at a certain location (For example, you can ask that we only contact you at work or by mail).
If you want to request confidential communications, contact the Privacy Officer in 书面，电话或在注册过程中. We will not ask the reason for your request. 我们将满足所有合理的要求. Your request must include 您希望被联系的地址和/或电话号码.
收到违约通知的权利
We are required to notify you by first class mail or by e-mail (if you have indicated a preference to receive information by e-mail), of any breaches of "Unsecured PHI" as soon as possible, but in no event later than 60 days following the discovery of the breach. "Unsecured PHI" is information that is protected health information ("PHI") and is not secured through the use of a technology or methodology identified by the Secretary of the U.S. 卫生与公众服务部 to render the PHI unusable, 未经授权的用户无法读取和解读. In the event that such breach 发生的情况，我们会通知卫生署局长 & Human Services, and if such breach affects 500 or more individuals, we will notify local media outlets 以及卫生部部长 & Human Services of the breach
有权获得本通知书的书面副本
您有权在任何时候获得本通知的纸质副本. You may obtain a copy of this notice online (.pdf), or at the Programs' respective office locations and service sites.
Changes to This Notice
我们保留随时更改此通知的权利. We reserve the right to make the revised or changed notice effective for medical information we already have about 您以及我们将来收到的任何信息. We will post a copy of the 目前在各地张贴的通知，注明生效日期. Revised copies 此通知将在您下次访问时提供.
Complaints
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with 该计划或与美国部长.S. 卫生与公众服务部. To file a complaint with the Programs, contact the Privacy Officer at the address listed above. 所有投诉必须以书面形式提交. You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.
医疗/康复信息的其他用途
Other uses and disclosures of information not covered by this notice or the laws that 只有得到您的书面许可，我们才会向您提出申请. If you provide us permission to use or disclose information about you, you may revoke that permission, in writing, at any time. If you revoke your permission, we will no longer use or disclose information 关于你的书面授权的原因. You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made with your permission, and that we are required to retain our records of the care that we provided to you.