THIS PRIVACY POLICY DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
This Privacy policy applies to Oliva Clinic and its physicians, medical staff, partners, and patients.
We respect your privacy. We maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect your health information. Your health information includes your symptoms, test results, diagnoses, treatments, health information from other providers, billing and payment information relating to these services, date of birth, AADHAR Number, and other private information. The following categories describe different ways we use and disclose health information. Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed.
We may use and disclose your health information to give you care and to coordinate and manage your treatment or other services. For example, a doctor treating you for a broken leg may need to know if you have diabetes because diabetes may slow the healing process.
Additionally, we receive laboratory results and imaging reports from outside laboratories and diagnostic facilities. We also may disclose your health information to other health care providers. For example, we may provide your health information to a surgeon who will be operating on you at a hospital.
We may share your information with other providers who are involved in your care for their payment purposes. Some of the health information we collect includes financial information, including information contained in forms you complete and submit to obtain services (your AADHAR Number, insurance number, credit information, etc.) and information relating to your transactions with us or others, such as your payment history and insurance and financial information.
We may use and disclose health information about you for our operations. For example, our quality improvement team may use your health information to assess the care and outcomes in your case and others like it. We may disclose your health information to other of your providers or to health plans for their own health care operations, on a limited basis, as allowed by law.
We may use and disclose your health information to: remind you about appointments with us; tell you about alternative treatment therapies, providers, or settings of care; and tell you about health-related products, benefits, or services related to your treatment or care. We may send you newsletters about general health matters, our services, and wellness programs.
Unless you object, we may disclose health information about you to a friend or family member who is involved in your medical care or who helps pay for your care. In addition, we may disclose health information about you to assist in disaster relief efforts or for notification purposes. You have the right to object to this disclosure of your information. If you object, we will not disclose it.
We may use and disclose your health information without your authorization as follows:
Uses and disclosures not referenced in this Privacy Policy will be made only with your written authorization or as required by law. Certain of your health information may be subject to additional confidentiality protections. We provide patients the opportunity to communicate with us via electronic means (e-mail). These communications are not encrypted.
User agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Oliva Clinic, its affiliates, officThe health and billing records we create and store are our property. The health information in it, however, generally belongs to you.
You have the right to inspect and obtain copies of health information that we may use to make decisions about your care. We may deny your request in certain limited circumstances. We may charge you a reasonable fee for the costs of copying, mailing, or other supplies related to your request.
If you feel that health information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, then you have the right to request a reasonable amendment for as long as we keep this information. We may deny your request in certain situations. To request an amendment, you must submit a formal email request, with the subject line "request for amendment".
You have the right to request an accounting of certain disclosures of your health information made by us. This accounting will not include disclosures: for treatment, payment, or health care operations; to you under your right of access to your records; that you authorized; to persons involved in your care or for facility directory and notification purposes; incidental to an otherwise permitted use or disclosure; as part of a limited data set; for national security or intelligence purposes; to correctional institutions or other custodial law enforcement officials. To request an accounting, you must submit a formal email request, with the subject line "request for accounting of disclosures".
You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the health information we use about you for treatment, payment, or health care operations. You also have the right to request a limit on the health information we disclose about you to someone who is involved in your care or the payment for your care. To request a restriction, you must submit a formal email request, with the subject line "request for restrictions on disclosure". We are not required to agree to your request. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you with emergency treatment.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective for information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future. Unless otherwise required by law, the revised Privacy Policy will be effective on the new effective date of the Privacy Policy. The current Privacy Policy will be available on our website.
If you have questions, want more information, or want to report a problem about the handling of your health information, you may communicate with our Privacy Officer over Email: contactus@my3c.co.