私隐实务通知

私隐措施通知

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. 请仔细审阅.

此通知 describes the practices of the 365英国上市官网 葛培理健康中心 and the 365英国上市官网 Counseling Center as of January 1, 2014 (called the “Health Center” in this Notice) with regard to the health care information and records and Protected Health Information the Health Center has about you that relates to the health care services provided by the Health Center, 以及健康中心如何使用和披露这些信息. 本声明还描述了您在受保护健康信息中的权利，以及您可以如何行使这些权利. 你的权利, 以及健康中心的职责, 仅应用于已创建的受保护运行状况信息, 收到了, 由健康中心维护或传播.

365英国上市官网学生

If you are attending 365英国上市官网 as a student when the Health Center creates or receives health care information or records about you, your information and records are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and its implementing regulations (“FERPA”). 请参阅 365英国上市官网的家庭教育权利和隐私法案 政策和补充信息位于FERPA标题下.

非365英国上市官网学生

If you are not attending 365英国上市官网 as a student when the Health Center creates or receives Protected Health Information about you (e.g.其他学院或大学的在校生、教职员工、访客等.), your Protected Health Information is protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (“HIPAA”) as described below.

受保护的健康信息(“PHI”)包括与您的过去相关的个人可识别信息, 现在或将来的健康状况, 医疗保健服务的治疗或支付, 包括你的名字等信息, 社会保险号, 地址和出生日期.

根据法律规定，健康中心必须对PHI信息保密, 向您提供本健康中心关于您的PHI的法律责任和隐私惯例的通知, 在违反影响您的不安全PHI时通知您, 并遵守当前有效的通知条款. 本隐私惯例通知于8月2日生效, 2010, which is the date on which the Health Center began to transmit health information in electronic form and has been amended as of September 23, 2013.

PHI use and disclosure by the Health Center is regulated by HIPAA as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”), 除非学生健康记录的使用和披露受FERPA管辖. 本通知试图总结HIPAA隐私法规, 但该规例将取代本通告所载资料与该规例之间的任何差异.

A. 未经您的许可使用和披露PHI. 健康中心使用和披露您的个人健康指数主要是为了向您提供医疗护理和治疗, 获得治疗费用并进行手术. 以下描述了这些以及其他可能在未经您书面授权的情况下进行的使用和披露, 再加上一些例子:

1. 治疗. 健康中心可能会使用或披露您的个人健康信息来提供, 协调, 协助或管理您的医疗及相关服务. 例如, 健康中心可能会向不属于健康中心的其他医生或医疗保健提供者披露您的PHI, 应您的要求或健康中心的要求, 参与到你的照顾中.
2.  付款. The Health Center may use and disclose your PHI to obtain 付款 for medical treatment and related services provided by the Health Center. 例如, the Health Center may need to disclose your PHI related to your visit to the Health Center to your health insurance plan to receive 付款. 类似的, the Health Center may disclose your PHI to your health insurance plan to obtain approval for a hospital stay or referral to a specialist.
3. 医疗保健业务. Health Center可能会将您的PHI用于Health Center的其他操作. 这些使用和披露对于管理Health Center是必要的. 例如, 健康中心可能会使用或披露您的PHI(1)来进行质量评估和改进活动, (2)进行员工评审活动, (三)办理许可手续, accreditation or certification purposes; business planning and development such as cost management, (4)办理保健中心的业务管理和一般行政活动.
4.  通信. The Health Center may use your PHI when we contact you to provide appointment reminders or to follow up on the care that you have 收到了, 讨论测试结果或转介到其他医疗保健提供者.
5. 按法律规定. 当法律要求时，健康中心将披露您的PHI. 例如，健康中心必须允许U.S. 卫生与公众服务部要审核卫生中心的记录. 当法院或行政命令或传票要求时，医疗中心也可能披露PHI.
6. 卫生监督. 健康中心可能会向监督我们遵守州和联邦法律的机构披露您的PHI.
7. 公共卫生活动. The Health Center may disclose your PHI to authorized public health officials and agencies for the purpose of public health activities. 这些活动可能包括控制或预防疾病, 受伤, 或残疾, 出生和死亡报告, 报告药物反应, 产品或医疗器械, 或传染病报告.
8. 虐待、忽视或家庭暴力的受害者. The Health Center may disclose your PHI to a public health authority that is authorized by law to receive reports of child abuse or neglect. 除了, 如果我们认为您是滥用行为的受害者，我们可能会披露您的PHI, 对有权接收此类信息的政府实体或机构的忽视或家庭暴力. 在这种情况下, 披露将符合适用的联邦和州法律的要求.
9. 严重威胁健康或安全. The Health Center may use and disclose your PHI when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of others.
10. 国家安全和情报活动或保护服务. 健康中心可能会向授权的联邦官员披露您的个人健康信息，用于情报或国家安全活动, 进行特别调查, 或为总统或其他政府官员提供保护服务.
11.  验尸官，验尸官和葬礼主管. The Health Center may disclose your PHI to a coroner or medical examiner to determine a cause of death or to identify a deceased person. 如有必要，健康中心也可能向殡仪主管披露您的PHI，以履行殡仪主管的职责.
12. 工人的补偿. 健康中心可根据授权披露您的PHI, 并在必要的程度上遵守, 劳工补偿或其他类似法律.

B. 无异议地使用和披露PHI. 健康中心可能会向家庭成员披露您的PHI, 其他亲戚或朋友，如果他们参与你的照顾或支付照顾费用, 只要你不反对. 例如, 除非您反对，否则您的医疗状况和治疗计划可以在亲戚或朋友在场的情况下与您讨论. 除非你反对, 健康中心可能会披露您的PHI以进行通知, 或者协助通知你的家人, 其他亲戚或朋友, 如果他们参与了你的护理, 关于你的情况, 地点还是死亡. 除非是在紧急情况下，或者因为你没有行为能力而不实际的情况下, 我们将为您提供在此类披露之前提出反对的机会.

C. 在您的许可下使用和披露PHI. The Health Center will not use or disclose your PHI for any purpose not identified above unless you give the Health Center your written authorization to do so. 例如, the following uses and disclosures generally require your authorization: (1) uses and disclosures for marketing purposes; (2) uses and disclosures which are a sale of Protected Health Information; and (3) uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes. If you give the Health Center written authorization to use or disclose your PHI for a specific purpose that is not described in this notice, 然后, 在大多数情况下, 你可以随时以书面形式撤销它. 您的撤销将对健康中心维护的所有PHI有效, 除非健康中心根据您的授权采取了行动.

D. 你的权利. 您可以向健康中心提出书面请求，要求对您的PHI进行以下一项或多项处理:

1. 请求限制. 对Health Center使用和披露您的PHI设置额外限制. 也, 您可以要求限制向家庭成员披露您的PHI, 照顾你的其他亲戚或朋友. 健康中心不一定要同意你的请求. The Health Center will comply with your request that your PHI not be disclosed if the disclosure is to a health for 付款 or health care operations and the PHI pertains solely to an item for which you have paid the health care provider out of pocket in full.
2. 请求保密通信. To communicate with you in confidence about your PHI by a different means or at a different location than is currently used by the Health Center. 健康中心将满足合理的要求. 您的要求应以书面形式提出，并指明与您保密沟通的其他方式或地点.
3. 检查和复制. 查看并获取保存在“指定记录集”中的PHI的副本.” A Designated Record Set includes medical records and billing records about you maintained by or for the Health Center or that is used by the Health Center to make decisions about you. 在有限的情况下，健康中心不必同意您的请求. 例如, this right does not apply to psychotherapy notes which the Health Center maintains or information which the Health Center compiles in reasonable anticipation of, 或用于, 民事, 刑事或行政行为或诉讼. 如果健康中心使用或维护包含您的PHI的电子健康记录, 您可以获得电子格式的电子PHI副本，并且, 如果你选择, 指示健康中心将电子副本直接传送给您指定的人员. The Health Center will not provide electronic PHI in a manner or format that the University determines is not secure unless authorized in writing by you.
4. 修改. 纠正你的PHI. 更正PHI的请求必须是书面的，并且必须提供更正的理由和支持. 在某些情况下, 健康中心不一定要同意你的要求, 在这种情况下，您可以提交书面回复，该回复将包含在您的PHI的未来披露中.
5. 披露的会计处理. To receive a list of disclosures of your PHI that the Health Center and its business associates made for certain purposes for the last 6 years (but not for disclosures before August 2, 2010). 该会计不包括为治疗而披露的信息, 付款, or health care operations; made to law enforcement personnel; made pursuant to your authorization; or made directly to you.
6. 此通知. 如果您通过电子邮件或互联网收到此通知，则向您发送此通知的纸质副本.

注意:行使你的权利, 你必须以书面形式和健康中心的表格提交你的请求. 您可以联系健康中心(联系信息如下)获取您可能需要的任何此类表格的副本. 在某些情况下, 健康中心可能会向你收取合理的费用, 以成本为基础的费用来执行您的要求.

E. 个人代表. 您可以通过您指定的个人代表或根据适用法律指定的个人代表行使您的权利. 未成年人的父母通常被认为是孩子的个人代表.

F. 本公告的修订. 健康中心必须遵守本通知的规定, although the Health Center reserves the right to change the terms of this Notice from time to time and to make the revised Notice effective for all PHI the   Health Center maintains. 健康中心将在60天内通知您本通知的任何实质性变化.

G. 问题及投诉. If you have questions about this Notice or want to file a complaint because you believe the Health Center has violated your privacy rights or this Notice, 请联络健康中心:

葛培理健康中心
松鼠北道2200号
罗切斯特，密歇根州48309
(2348) 370-2341
传真:(248)370-2691

你也有权向美国投诉.S. 卫生与公众服务部. 如果您选择向健康中心或美国医疗机构投诉，我们不会对您进行报复.S. 卫生与公众服务部.