Privacy Policy For First Primary Care Website
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
- What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
- The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, And Sharing
We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about news or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access To And Control Over Information
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Links To Other Websites
How We Use Cookies
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Updates
Privacy Policy For First Primary Care Patients
In taking care of you, First Primary Care (the “Practice” or “we”) will be recording your medical information in our medical record. This information is called your Protected Health Information, or PHI. We are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of health information that identifies you and to provide you with this Notice of the Practice’s legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI. When the Practice uses or discloses PHI, the Practice is required to abide by the terms of this Notice (or other notice in effect at the time of the use or disclosure).
Treatment
Payment
Operations
Information Related to Your Care
Communication with Family and Others
Public Health Reporting
- Report child abuse or neglect, elder abuse, disabled person abuse, rape or sexual assault
- Report medical information for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability
- Notify a person regarding potential exposure to a communicable disease
- Notify a person regarding a potential risk for spreading or contracting a disease or condition,
- Report reactions to drugs or problems with products or devices
- Report information to your insurer and/or the state industrial accident board (and any party involved in a workers’ compensation matter) as required under laws addressing work-related illnesses and injuries or workplace medical surveillance.
Health Oversight Activities
Lawsuits and Similar Proceedings
Law Enforcement
Deceased Patients
Organ and Tissue Donation
Research
Serious Threats to Health or Safety
Military
National Security
Inmates
Workers’ Compensation
Receive Confidential Communications
Requesting Restrictions
Inspection, Copies, and Amendments
Revoke your Authorization
Revoke your Authorization
Right to a Paper Copy of this Notice
Accounting and Access Reports
Notice of a Breach
Revisions to Our Privacy Policies and Practices
Sale of PHI, Marketing and Other Uses and Disclosures Require your Authorization
- For our marketing purposes (although this does not include face-to-face communication about products or services that may be of benefit to you and about prescriptions you have already been prescribed).
Disclosure of your psychotherapy notes. These are the notes that your behavioral health provider maintains that record your appointments with your provider and are not stored with your medical record.
Highly Confidential Information. In some instances, we may need specific, written authorization from you in order to disclose certain types of specially-protected information such as psychotherapy notes, HIV status, substance abuse treatment, mental health records, venereal disease information, research involving controlled substances, abortion consent forms, family planning services, and genetic testing information for purposes such as treatment, payment and healthcare operations (“Highly Confidential Information”). - If you are an emancipated minor, certain information relating to your diagnosis or treatment may be considered Highly Confidential Information and will not be disclosed to your parent or guardian without your consent. Your consent is not required, however, if a physician reasonably believes your condition to be so serious that your life or limb is endangered. Under such circumstances, we may notify your parents or legal guardian of the condition, and will inform you of any such notification. Please note that if you are a parent or legal guardian of an emancipated minor, certain portions of the emancipated minor’s medical record (or, in certain instances, the entire medical record) may not be accessible to you.
Your Choices
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- You have both the right and choice to tell us how to:
- Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
- Share information in a disaster relief situation
- Include your information in a hospital directory
- Contact you for fundraising efforts
Note: If you are not able to tell us your preference, for example if you are unconscious, we may go ahead and share your information if we believe it is in your best interest. We may also share your information when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.
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- In these cases we never share your information unless you give us written permission:
- Marketing purposes
- Sale of your information
- Most sharing of psychotherapy notes
- In the case of fundraising:
- We may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can tell us not to contact you again.
- In these cases we never share your information unless you give us written permission:
- You have both the right and choice to tell us how to:
Right to File a Complaint
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 509F HHH Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20201
If you have questions about this Notice, please contact the Practice’s Privacy Officer:
First Primary Care
8582 Katy Fwy, Suite 110
Houston, TX 77024
(713) 280-7991
[email protected]