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An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Compliance (HIPAA)-Covered Entity
About this Policy
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Protecting the privacy of our patients’ medical information helps to foster long-term patient relationships built on confidence and trust. In addition, safeguarding Protected Health Information or “PHI” is required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Our Practice is considered a covered employer that is required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The Privacy Rule requires that a patient’s PHI is kept confidential and that no one associated with our organization (such as employees, volunteers, interns or contractors) use or disclose such information without the patient’s written authorization, except under limited and specific circumstances.
Protected Health Information includes any patient health information that is individually identifiable. Individually identifiable health information is that which can be linked to a particular person or group of people, usually by the patient’s name, social security number, address, birth date or other piece of demographic information. For example a patient’s medical condition coupled with that patient’s name would be considered PHI. In addition, simply the fact that an individual is a patient at our Practice is also considered PHI. In your role with the company, you are required to safeguard any patient information, including demographic data that relates to:
Employees will inevitably come into contact with Protected Health Information. This information may be in any medium (e.g. spoken, written, or observed). Such information may only be disseminated to other employees within the Practice on a strict “need to know” basis. In addition, under no circumstances are employees permitted to discuss or otherwise disclose PHI with anyone outside the Practice, including other patients, the patient’s family or friends, or their own family or friends.
A HIPAA covered entity, such as our Practice, is permitted to use and disclose PHI, without the patient’s authorization under the following circumstances:
Please keep in mind that HIPAA Privacy Rule-covered transactions include, but are not limited to:
Employees will receive training regarding the Practice’s Privacy and HIPAA policies. Adherence to the Practice’s HIPAA rules and policies is a condition of employment. Unauthorized disclosures of PHI, or other Privacy or HIPAA violations, will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Should you ever have questions or concerns regarding our HIPAA policy, a specific disclosure, or a disclosure request, please direct such questions to your manager or our HIPAA Compliance Officer.
