Notice of Privacy Practices
Frye Regional Medical Center Notice of Privacy Practices
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Updated as of July 17, 2024
It is our legal duty to protect the privacy and security of your information. 我们承诺对您的健康信息保密, 法律要求我们尊重你的隐私.
This Notice describes the privacy practices of Frye Regional Medical Center and its affiliated facilities (collectively, (“we”, “我们”, 或“我们”). 本通知适用于识别您的所有健康信息以及您在博彩推荐设施接受的护理.
Your health information may consist of paper, 数字, 或者电子记录,但也可以包括照片, videos and other electronic transmissions, 或者在你的护理和治疗过程中产生的录音.
联邦和州法律要求Frye区域医疗中心保护您的健康信息,联邦法律要求我们向您说明我们如何处理这些信息. 当联邦和州的隐私法不同和冲突时, and the 状态 law is more protective of your information or provides you with greater access to your information, then we will follow 状态 law.
Frye Regional Medical Center and Affiliated Facilities
All of our facilities, employed physicians, 办公室, 实体, other services, 及附属设施遵守本通知的条款.
Frye区域医疗中心的医生和其他非受雇于Frye区域医疗中心的护理人员可能会与Frye区域医疗中心的工作人员交换您作为患者的信息. In connection with the health care that these health care practitioners provide to you outside the Frye Regional Medical Center, 他们也可能会告诉你他们自己的隐私做法,描述他们的办公室做法.
We and our affiliated facilities may share your health information with one another for reasons of treatment, 付款, and health care operations as described below.
博彩推荐如何使用和披露您的健康信息
当你成为博彩推荐的病人时, 出于本通知所述的原因,我们将在Frye区域医疗中心内使用您的健康信息,并在Frye区域医疗中心外披露您的健康信息. The following categories describe some of the ways that we will use and disclose your health information.
治疗. 我们使用您的健康信息为您提供医疗保健服务. We may disclose your health information to doctors, 护士, 技术人员, medical or nursing students, or other persons at Frye Regional Medical Center who need the information to take care of you. 例如, 为你治疗伤口的医生可能需要询问另一位医生你的整体健康状况,因为这种状况可能会影响伤口的愈合过程. 我们也可能将您的健康信息透露给博彩推荐以外可能涉及您健康护理的人员, such as treating doctors and home care providers. 我们可能会与您认定为家庭成员的人共享某些信息, 相对, 朋友, 或其他直接参与你的护理或支付你的护理费用的人. If it becomes necessary, we will notify these individuals about your location, general condition, 或死亡.
付款. We may use and disclose your health information so that the health care you receive can be billed and paid for by you, your insurance company, or another third party. 例如, 我们可能会把你在这里做过的手术的信息提供给你的健康计划,这样它就会支付给我们或报销你的手术费用. 我们也可能会告诉你的健康计划你将要接受的治疗,这样我们就可以提前获得付款批准,或者了解你的计划是否会支付治疗费用.
Health Care Operations. We may use your health information and disclose it outside Frye Regional Medical Center for our health care operations. 例如, we may use your health information to review the care you received and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We also may combine health information about many patients to identify new services to offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain therapies are effective. We may also disclose information to doctors, 护士, 技术人员, medical students, and other persons at Frye Regional Medical Center for learning and quality improvement purposes.
Contacting You. We may use and disclose health information to reach you about appointments and other matters. We may contact you by mail, telephone, or email. 例如, 我们可以在你提供给我们的电话号码上留言, and we may respond to your email address.
Health Information Exchanges. 我们可能会将您的健康信息提供给我们参与的健康信息交换(“HIE”)和名为“我的健康点”的患者门户网站. HIE是一个健康信息数据库,其他医疗保健提供者可以从任何地方访问您的医疗信息,只要他们是HIE的成员. 患者门户网站“我的健康点”是一种机制,您可以通过它在护理和治疗后在线访问您的健康信息. 如果您不希望将您的医疗信息放置在患者门户中并与HIE成员医疗保健专业人员共享, you can opt out by submitting the opt out form. 选择退出需要五(5)个工作日才能生效. Note that if you opt out, 提供者可能没有关于您的最新信息,这可能会影响您的护理. 您总是可以在以后的日期通过书面撤销选择退出表格来选择加入.
Health-Related 服务. 我们可能会使用和披露您的健康信息,以便向您发送有关Frye区域医疗中心提供的与健康相关的产品和服务的邮件.
Philanthropic Support. 我们可能会使用或披露您的某些健康信息与您联系,以努力筹集资金,以支持Frye区域医疗中心和我们的运营. You have a right to choose not to receive these communications and we will tell you how to cancel them.
Patient Information Directories. 我们的医院在他们的病人目录中包含了有限的关于你的信息, such as your name and possibly your location in the hospital and your general condition (for example: good, 公平, 严重的, 至关重要的, or undetermined). 我们通常会将这些信息提供给指名询问您的人. We also may include your religious affiliation in the directories and give this limited information to clergy from the community. We do not release this information if you are being treated on a substance abuse unit unless permitted by 状态 or federal law. 发布有关您的目录信息可以使您的家人和其他人(如朋友), community-based clergy, 和接生人员)去医院看望你,大致了解你的情况. 如果您希望这些个人信息被保密, you may make that request to the hospital admitting department and we will not release any of this information.
Medical Research. We perform medical research here. 我们的临床研究人员可能会查看您的健康记录,作为您当前护理的一部分, or to prepare or perform research. They may share your health information with other Frye Regional Medical Center researchers. 在博彩推荐进行的所有患者研究都要经过法律要求的特殊程序,该程序审查对参与研究的患者的保护, including privacy. 在未事先获得您的书面批准或确定您的隐私受到保护之前,我们不会出于研究原因使用您的健康信息或将其透露给Frye区域医疗中心以外的地方.
Organ and Tissue Donation. We may release health information about organ, 组织, 以及眼睛捐赠者和器官移植接受者, 组织, and eye donation and transplantation.
Public Health and Safety. We will disclose health information about you outside Frye Regional Medical Center when required to do so by federal, 状态, 或者当地法律, or by other legal process (e.g., for judicial and administrative proceedings, 包括法院或行政命令以及对传票的回应). 出于公共健康和安全原因,我们可能会披露您的健康信息, like reporting births, 死亡, child abuse or neglect, reactions to medications, or problems with medical products. 我们也可能在需要时分享您的健康信息,以减轻对健康或安全的严重和迫在眉睫的威胁,例如帮助控制疾病的传播或通知健康或安全可能受到威胁的人. We may disclose health information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law, such as for audits, investigations, 检查, and licensure. We also may disclose health information about you in the event of an emergency or for disaster relief purposes.
如果您对我们如何分享您的信息有明确的偏好,请与我们交谈. Tell us what you want us to do, 我们会在法律允许的范围内,尽我们最大的努力遵从您的指示. If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, 如果我们认为这符合您的最佳利益,我们也可能会分享您的信息.
Authorizations for Other Uses and Disclosures
As described above, we will use your health information and disclose it outside Frye Regional Medical Center for treatment, 付款, health care operations, and when required or permitted by law. We will not use or disclose your health information for other reasons without your written authorization. 例如, most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes require your written authorization.
With your written permission, we may share your health information to promote our own products and services or for marketing purposes. This may occur in person, 当我们与您面对面讨论产品和服务时,也可能发生在您访问我们的网页或移动设备应用程序时. 我们可能会通过cookie、像素或类似技术收集和分享这些信息. 这些信息可能包括有关您的设备或浏览器的技术信息.g., Internet Protocol addresses, operating systems, and referring URLs) as well as information about your activities on and use of webpages and mobile device applications (e.g., access time, pages viewed, and links clicked). You should review the privacy policy on the Frye Regional Medical Center website for detailed information on the types of cookies, 像素, and other technologies that we may use, as well as the information we may collect and share. We may only sell your health information if we have received your prior written authorization to do so.
These kinds of uses and disclosures of your health information will be made only with your written consent. You may revoke the authorization in writing at any time, but we cannot take back any uses or disclosures of your health information already made with your authorization.
Your Rights Regarding Health Information
Right to Inspect and Obtain Copy. 你有权检查并获得你完整的健康记录的副本,除非你的医生认为向你披露这些信息会对你造成伤害. 当研究正在进行时,您可能无法看到或获得为法律程序或某些研究记录收集的信息的副本. 你必须以书面形式提出查阅或索取纪录副本的要求, signed and dated, 透过下述联络方法联络私隐主任. This may take up to thirty (30) days to prepare, 并且可能会有一个合理的准备费用与制作任何副本. If Frye Regional Medical Center denies your request to inspect or obtain a copy of the records, you may appeal the denial in writing to Frye Regional Medical Center’s Privacy Officer via contact method provided below.
Right to Amend. 如果您认为我们提供的有关您的健康信息不正确或不完整, 你有权要求我们修改你的医疗记录. 您的修改请求必须以书面形式,签名并注明日期. It must specify the records you wish to amend, 找出保存这些记录的博彩推荐的机构, and give the reason for your request. We may deny your request; if we do, we will tell you why and explain your options. 博彩推荐将在60天内给您答复.
Right to Accounting. You may request an accounting, 哪些是Frye区域医疗中心在未经您书面授权的情况下向其披露您的健康信息的实体或个人(您本人除外)的清单. The accounting may not include disclosures for treatment, 付款, health care operations, and certain other disclosures exempted by law. 您对披露会计的要求必须以书面形式,签名并注明日期. 它必须确定披露的时间段以及维护您要求会计处理的记录的博彩推荐设施. 我们可能不会列出早于您提出请求前六(6)年的披露. 您的请求应该指明您想要列表的表单(例如, on paper or electronically). You must submit your written request 透过下述联络方法联络私隐主任.
We will respond to you within 60 days. 我们将在任何12个月内免费为您提供第一个列表, 但我们将向您收取在同一12个月内要求的所有其他账目的费用.
Right to Request Restrictions. You have the right to ask us to restrict the uses or disclosures we make of your health information for treatment, 付款, or health care operations, but we do not have to agree in most circumstances. 然而, 如果你为医疗保健项目或服务支付了全额费用, and you ask us to restrict the disclosures to a health plan of your health information relating solely to that item or service, 我们将同意向健康计划披露信息是为了进行付款或医疗保健业务,并且法律没有要求披露信息. 您也可以要求我们限制我们使用或披露有关您的健康信息给那些参与您的护理或支付您的护理费用的人, such as a family member or 朋友. Again, we do not have to agree.
A request for a restriction must be signed and dated, and you must identify the Frye Regional Medical Center facility that maintains the information. 请求还应描述您希望限制的信息, 说明你是否想限制信息的使用或披露,或两者兼而有之, 告诉我们哪些人不应该收到限制信息. You must submit your request in writing 透过下述联络方法联络私隐主任. We will tell you if we agree with your request or not. If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you with emergency treatment.
Right to Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that we communicate with you about your health in a certain way or at a certain location. 例如,您可以要求我们只在工作时或通过邮件与您联系. 您的保密通信请求必须采用书面形式,签名并注明日期. 它必须指明进行保密通信的博彩推荐设施,并指明您希望联系的方式或地点. 你不必告诉我们你请求的理由,我们也不会问. You must send your written request to the Privacy Officer via a contact method provided above. We will accommodate all reasonable requests.
Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice. You have the right to a paper copy of this Notice. 你可随时要求我们向你提供本通知的副本. 即使您已同意以电子方式接收本通知, you are still entitled to a paper copy. 您可以在我们的任何设施获取本通知的纸质副本,或通过以下提供的方法与隐私官联系. You also can view this Notice at our website, http://xvg.drf2921.com/.
Our Contact Information
For more information about these privacy practices, to place a complaint, to exercise the rights described herein, or to report a concern or conflict, please contact us at:
Frye Regional Medical Center Privacy Officer
828.315.3749
420 N Center St
Hickory, NC 28601
或者,如果你想保持匿名,你可以拨打免费电话, 1-877-508-LIFE (5433) and an attendant will handle your concern anonymously.
如果您认为我们没有妥善处理您的投诉,您也可以向美国卫生与公众服务部发送书面投诉. 您可以使用上面列出的联系方式为您提供适当的地址或访问 http://www.美国卫生和公众Services部.gov/civil-rights/filing-a-complaint/index.html. 在任何情况下,你都不会因为投诉而受到报复.
Changes to this Notice
我们保留随时更改我们的政策和隐私惯例通知的权利. If we should make a significant change in our policies, we will change this notice and post the new notice. 我们将在我们的每个设施和网站上张贴一份当前通知的副本。 http://xvg.drf2921.com/.