HIPAA/Privacy
Policy
What is HIPAA all about?
The final rule adopting HIPAA standards
for security was published in the Federal Register on
February 20, 2003. This final rule specifies a series
of administrative, technical, and physical security procedures
for covered entities to use to assure the confidentiality
of electronic protected health information. To ensure
compliance with the security provisions, Ultimate Vitality
Centers, PLLC (PWC) uses a HIPAA-complaint Electronic
Medical Records (EMR) system. In being HIPAA compliant,
the EMR provider has implemented rigorous security standards
including physical and electronic protections.
The privacy provisions of HIPAA apply to
health information created or maintained by health care
providers who engage in certain electronic transactions,
health plans, and health care clearinghouses. This part
of the provisions provides requirements for how we can
and can not use the information that is in your health
record, and gives you certain rights to limit disclosures
in certain situations. The privacy provisions also require
that we notify you of our specific privacy policies. Click
this link to access our current Notice of Privacy Practices.
Notwithstanding the HIPAA requirements, we take security
and privacy very seriously and take every effort to safeguard
your personal health information and the financial information
that you trust us with when making payments.
Using email safely
As such, we are concerned about the use of standard email
for sensitive information, called "protected health information"
(PHI) in the HIPAA provisions. For that reason, we have
required that patients fax their credit card authorization
forms and health history forms to us.
HIPAA/Privacy Documents
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