隐私政策

关于HIPAA

The Health 保险 Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) gives patients the new right to be informed about the privacy practices of their health care providers, as well as rights with respect to their own protected health information.

作为医疗保健提供者, we are required to distribute a notice of our privacy practices to our patients.

买球平台 卫生服务 is a contracted service through UMass Memorial Health Care.

资料实务联合通告

生效日期:2003年4月14日

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed, 以及如何获得这些信息. 请仔细审阅。.

UMass Memorial Health Care is an organized health care arrangement (OHCA). This joint notice applies to member organizations and physicians as listed in this brochure.

病人的隐私

在马萨诸塞大学纪念医院，你的隐私是最重要的. We follow strict federal and state guidelines to maintain the confidentiality of your medical (protected health) information.

受保护的运行状况信息

Protected health information (PHI) is any information about your past, 现在, 或者未来的医疗保健, or 付款 for that care that could be used to identify you.

Members of our workforce and our business associates may only access the minimum amount of protected health information that they need to complete their assigned tasks.

PHI的使用和披露

当你参观马萨诸塞大学纪念设施时, we use and disclose your protected health information to treat you, to obtain 付款 for services and to conduct normal business known as 保健业务. We may also share information with a contracted business associate who must meet our privacy requirements. Examples of how we use and disclose your information include:

• 治疗 -我们记录每次访问和/或入院. 本文档可能包括您的测试结果, 诊断, 和药物, 以及你对药物或其他疗法的反应. 这让你的医生, nurses and other clinical staff to provide the best care to meet your needs.
• 付款 – We document the services and supplies you receive at each visit or admission so that you, your insurance company or another third party can pay us. We may tell your health plan about upcoming treatment or services that require its prior approval.
• 保健业务 – Medical information is used to improve the services we provide, 培训员工和学生, 对于企业管理, 性能改进, 以及客户服务.

我们也可能将这些信息用于:

• 推荐治疗方案
• 告诉你健康福利和服务
• Communicate with other UMass Memorial OHCA members or business associates for treatment, 支付或医疗保健业务
• 发送约会提醒
• Communicate with family or friends involved in your care with your permission
• Include you on the inpatient list for callers or visitors if you are admitted*
• 回应传媒的查询*
• 如果你被录取，请通知神职人员
• Contact you about support for the UMass Memorial Foundation (fundraising)*带*号的服务是可选的. Tell the admitting clerk or fundraiser (if contacted) that you do not wish to participate .

There are limited times when we are permitted or required to disclose medical information without your signed permission. 这些情况包括:

• For public health activities such as tracking disease or medical devices
• 保护虐待或忽视的受害者
• For federal and state health oversight activities such as fraud investigations
• 用于司法或行政程序
• 如果法律或执法要求
• 验尸官，法医和葬礼承办人
• 器官捐赠
• 避免对公众健康或安全造成严重威胁
• For specialized government functions such as national security and intelligence
• 如果你在工作中受伤，你将获得工伤赔偿
• 如果你是一名囚犯，就去惩教机构
• For research following strict review to ensure protection of information

Other uses and disclosures not previously described may only be done with your signed authorization. You may revoke your authorization, in writing, at any time.

我们的责任

UMass Memorial is required by law to maintain the privacy of your medical information, provide this notice of our duties and privacy practices, and abide by the terms of the notice currently in effect. We reserve the right to change privacy practices and make new practices effective for all the information we maintain. Revised notices will be posted in our facilities and will be available from your health care provider.

你的权利

您有权:

• Request that we restrict how we use or disclose your medical information (we are not required to abide by your request)
• Request that we use a specific telephone number or address to communicate with you
• Inspect and copy your medical information (fees will apply)*
• Request amendment to your medical information (reason required)*
• Receive an accounting of how your medical information was disclosed (excludes disclosures for treatment, 付款, 保健业务, and some required disclosures; fees may apply)*
• Obtain a paper copy of this notice even if you receive it electronically
• 登记投诉
• 选择退出我们的住院病人名单或筹款请求

请求必须以书面形式提出

联络我们

If you have questions about this notice, contact the privacy officer or visit www.UMassmemorial.org.

If you would like to exercise your rights or if you feel your privacy rights have been violated, 联络私隐主任:

麻省纪念医疗中心
哈内曼校园隐私办公室
林肯街281号.
伍斯特，马萨诸塞州01605
1-508-334-5551

All complaints will be investigated and you will not suffer retaliation for filing a complaint. You may also file a complaint with the secretary of health and human services in Washington, DC.

我们有组织医疗保健安排(OHCA)的成员

所有马萨诸塞大学纪念设施和服务包括:

• 麻省纪念医疗中心
• 麻省大学纪念-克林顿医院
• 马萨诸塞大学纪念-社区健康链接
• 马萨诸塞大学纪念-健康联盟
• 马萨诸塞大学纪念-马尔伯勒医院
• UMass Memorial – Wing Memorial Hospital and Medical Centers
• 马萨诸塞大学纪念-大学公地
• 麻省大学纪念MRI - cmic分部
• 马萨诸塞大学纪念医疗集团
• 私人医院医生
• Other private physicians while working at our facilities

Each OHCA member is individually responsible for abiding by the privacy practices, and for resolving its own privacy complaints or violations.