For Health Care Operations. This includes quality assurance activities, licensing, and training programs to ensure that our personnel meet our standards of care and follow established policies and procedures, as well as certain other management functions.
For Health Care Operations. We may use or disclose, as needed, your PHI in order to support our business activities including, but not limited to, quality assessment activities, employee review activities, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other business activities. For example, we may share your PHI with third parties that perform various business activities (e.g., billing or typing services) provided we have a written contract with the business that requires it to safeguard the privacy of your PHI. For training or teaching purposes PHI will be disclosed only with your authorization.
For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose Health Information for health care operations purposes. These uses and disclosures are necessary to make sure that all of our patients receive quality care and to operate and manage our office. We also may share information with other entities that have a relationship with you (for example, your health plan) for their health care operation activities.
For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose health information about you for our day-to-day health care operations. Your health information may be used and disclosed for the business management and general activities of the Practice including resolution of internal grievances, customer service, and due diligence in connection with a sale or transfer of the Practice. In limited circumstances, we may disclose your health information to another entity subject to HIPAA for its own health care operations. We may remove information that identifies you so that the health information may be used to study health care and health care delivery without learning the identities of patients.
For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose health information about You for our day-to-day health care operations. This is necessary to ensure that all patients receive quality care. For example, we may use health information for quality assessment and improvement activities and for developing and evaluating clinical protocols. We may also combine health information about many patients to help determine what additional services we should offer, what services should be discontinued, and whether certain new treatments are effective. Health information about You may be used for business development and planning, cost management analyses, insurance claims management, risk management activities, and in developing and testing information systems and programs. We may also use and disclose information for professional review, performance evaluation, and for training programs. Other aspects of health care operations that may require use and disclosure of your health information include accreditation, certification, licensing and credentialing activities, review and auditing, including compliance reviews, medical reviews, legal services, and compliance programs. Your health information may be used and disclosed for the business management and general activities of the Practice including resolution of internal grievances, customer service, and due diligence in connection with a sale or transfer of the Practice. In limited circumstances, we may disclose your health information to another entity subject to HIPAA for its own health care operations. We may remove information that identifies You so that the health information may be used to study health care and health care delivery without learning the identities of patients.
For Health Care Operations. We may use or disclose, as needed, your PHI in order to support our business activities including, but not limited to, quality assessment activities, employee review activities, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other b usiness activities. For example, we may share your PHI with third parties that perform various business activities (e.g., billing or typing services) provided we have a written contract with the business that requires it to safeguard the privacy of your PHI. For training or teaching purposes PHI will be disclosed only with your authorization. We utilize electronic systems to store some of your PHI. Should a breach in security occur, we are required to notify you of this breach within 60 of the occurrence.
For Health Care Operations. Health care operations include (1) conducting quality assessment and improvement activities, including outcomes evaluation and development of clinical guidelines; (2) reviewing the competence or qualifications of healthcare professionals and plans evaluating practitioner and provider performance; or (3) certain underwriting, premium rating, and other activities relating to the creation, renewal or replacement of a contract of health insurance or health benefits. For instance, I may occasionally share your information with a collaborating colleague when reviewing medical conditions or reviewing my care outcomes. We may make certain other uses and disclosures of your health information that require your consent. We will only make these uses or disclosures with your written authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time, however the revocation does not affect actions taken before we receive it. OTHER PRIVACY RIGHTS YOU CAN EXERCISE You have a variety of rights under HIPAA and the Privacy Rule that you may choose to exercise. These consist of: • The right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of protected health information. For example, you can ask us to restrict use or disclosure of PHI for health care operations, restrict disclosure to persons involved in the individual’s health care, or payment for healthcare. You can ask us to limit disclosures made to notify family member or others about the person’s condition or location. We are not obligated to agree to these restrictions. If we do agree, we must honor that agreement (except in certain emergency situations). • The right to receive confidential communications of protected health information. For instance, you may wish to be contacted only at home and not at work, or vice versa. For instance, if you request us to contact you only at a specific address or telephone number, we will do so or we will make every effort to accommodate reasonable requests, and have an obligation to comply if you tell us that noncompliance may endanger you. • You can inspect and copy the protected health information we have in our files. • You can request amendment of any inaccurate protected health information. • On request, you can receive an accounting of the disclosures of protected health information that we have made. • Even if you have agreed to receive privacy notices electronically, you can have, on request, a paper copy of any notice. PERSONAL INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSUR...
For Health Care Operations. We can use and disclose your PHI to operate my practice. For example, We might use your PHI to evaluate the quality of health care services that you received or to evaluate the performance of the health care professionals who provided such services to you. We may also provide your PHI to my accountant, attorney, consultants, or others to further my health care operations.
For Health Care Operations. We may use and disclose your health information for our business operations and in making sure that all of our patients receive quality care. For example, we may use your health information to review our services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We may also review health information about our patients in order to decide what additional services to offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain new treatments are effective. We may disclose your personal health information to doctors, nurses, technicians, students, and other affiliated personnel to train or educate them. Sometimes, we may compare information from our medical records with information from other medical groups to see how we are doing and where we can make improvements in our care and in the services we offer. We may also share your personal health information with other health care providers and health plans that serve you, if they need your information to conduct their own business operations.
For Health Care Operations. We may use or disclose, as needed, your PHI in order to support our business activities including, but not limited to, quality assessment activities, employee review activities, reminding you of appointments, to provide information about treatment alternatives or other health related benefits and services, licensing, and conducting or arranging for other business activities. For example, we may share your PHI with third parties that perform various business activities (e.g., billing or typing services) provided we have a written contract with the business that requires it to safeguard the privacy of your PHI. For training or teaching purposes PHI will be disclosed only with your authorization.
