STAR FAMILY
MEDICINE Confidentiality Statement
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founds provided by Star Family Medicine, PC
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No paid advertising is or will be accepted on
starfamilymedicine.com.
HIPAA Requirements
All patients
have certain
rights to privacy regarding their protected health information. These
rights are given to them under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
• Treatment (including direct and
indirect treatment by other healthcare providers involved in my
treatment);
• Obtaining payment from third party
payers (e.g. my insurance company);
• The day-to-day health care
operations of your practice.
All patients will be informed of, and
given the right to review and secure a copy of their Statement of
Privacy Practices, which contains a more complete description of the
uses and disclosures of my protected health information, and my
rights under HIPAA. We reserve the right to change the terms of this
notice from time to time and when contacted will disclose it to our
patients
All patients have the right to
request restrictions on how their protected health information is
used and disclosed to carry the treatment, payment, and health care
operations, but that they are not required to agree to these
requested restrictions.
All patients
may revoke this consent, in writing, at any time. However, any use
or disclosure that occurred prior to the date they revoke this
consent is not affected. Your physician understands the importance
of patient confidentiality and is committed to the protection of
your personal health information.
All personal identification information is protected and stored on a
secure server.
All information given via the physician consult form or in a
conversation with any of our employees is held in complete
confidence. Our employees adhere to the strict standards for patient
confidentiality set by the American Medical Association and the
Health on the Net Foundation.
We do not share any of your personal information with any of our
affiliate or associate sites.
We will not release any personally identifying information to anyone
unless mandated by federal or state laws. Aggregate statistical
summaries may be released to third parties, but these statistics
will contain no personally identifiable information.
When you submit your information to your physician's website, that
information is converted to a random code. This is called
encryption. When the information arrives at its destination, the
data is decoded and stored on a secure server.
There are two ways of knowing you are connected to a secure server.
A little closed padlock or unbroken key will appear on the bottom of
your browser's window when you access a secure page.
The "http" at the beginning of the URL will change to "https" when
you access secure pages.
Other ways we provide Internet security:
Email correspondence and notifications from Star Family Medicine
will not contain any medical information or indication of medical
treatment.
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