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NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES OF ORTHOCAROLINA, PA
Effective: September 1, 2005
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. Click here for the complete document
Understanding Your Health Record/Information
Each time you visit a hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider, a record of your visit is made. Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination and test results, diagnoses, treatment, and a plan for future care or treatment. This information, often referred to as your health or medical record, serves as a:
- Basis for planning your care and treatment
- Means of communications among the many health professionals who contribute to your care
- Legal document describing the care you received
- Means by which you or a third party payer can verify that service billed were actually provided
- Tool in educating health professionals
- Source of data for medical research
- Source of information for public health officials charged with improving the health of the nation
- Source of data for facility planning and marketing
- Tool with which we can assess and continually work to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve
Understanding what is in your record and how your health information is used helps you to:
- Ensure its accuracy
- Better understand who, what, when, where and why others may access your health information
- Make more informed decisions when authorizing disclosure to others
We are required by law to protect the privacy of health information about you and that can be identified with you, which we call "protected health information," or "PHI" for short. We must give you notice of our legal duties and privacy practices concerning PHI. This information is available at all OrthoCarolina locations.
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