Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care 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.
I. Uses & Disclosures
We may use and/or disclose your information for the following purposes:
Treatment: We may use your information to provide you patient care and/or other health-related services. For example, we automatically enroll you with our telemedicine provider partners, and we share the information that you provide (either directly or through your caregiver) to us with the telemedicine provider so that they may provide this service.
Operations: We may use your information to run our practice, improve your care, and/or contact you, when necessary. For example, we use health information about you to manage your treatment and services.
Payment: We use your information to bill and receive payment from health plans and other entities. For example, we use information about you to bill your health insurance plan so it will pay for your services.
We only share your personal information with third parties as required by law or contract, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we are required to share certain information with patient health plans in order to provide our service (information about your visits with patients; location, time in and out, photographs and signatures). We must also share information regarding caregiver hours worked in order to properly bill patient insurance plans and arrange for caregiver payroll.
Only aggregated, anonymized data is periodically transmitted to external services providers to help us improve the Application and our service. Our service providers work on our behalf, do not have independent use of the information we disclose to them, and have agreed to comply with this privacy statement.
We are allowed and, in some instances, required by law to share your information for public health and safety issues. However, certain legal requirements must be met, including our good faith belief that the law requires the disclosure prior to disclosing your information for these purposes. This may include instances where we are required to respond to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. For additional information, please see: www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/consumers/index.html. These situations include:
– Reporting suspected abuse, neglect, or domestic violence;
– Preventing or reducing a serious threat to anyone’s health or safety;
– Conducting research;
– Complying with applicable laws and regulations;
– Addressing workers’ compensation, law enforcement, and other government requests; and/or
– Responding to lawsuits and legal actions.
We may also use the information that we receive to:
– Contact you from time to time to provide you with important information, required notices, and/or marketing promotions;
– Help you efficiently access your information after you sign in;
– Enhance your user experience, for example saving information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Application;
– Provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Application, including developing and testing new products and features;
– Monitor metrics, such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns;
– Diagnose or fix technology problems; and/or
Regarding Biometric Information: We use this information to identify caregivers and patients and verify your time entries when using the Application. We do not disclose this information unless you consent to such disclosure; the disclosure completes a financial transaction requested or authorized by you or your legally authorized representative; the disclosure is required by State or federal law or municipal ordinance; or the disclosure is required pursuant to a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
We only retain this information for a period of up to 10 years. After this time, Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care will permanently destroy such data. Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care will store, transmit, and protect biometric data using a reasonable standard of care. Such storage, transmission, and protection from disclosure will be performed in a manner that is the same as or more protective than the manner in which Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care stores, transmits, and protects from disclosure other confidential and sensitive information of Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care.
If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, or liquidation), your information such as name and email address and any other information collected through the Application may be among the items sold or transferred. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.
Permitted Uses & Disclosures – Situational Disclosures
Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care SMS Terms Notification
Home Care MO DBA Rockaway Home Care Notifications are to provide notices informing you when your visits are and to ensure that you are clocking in and out for each of your visits. Also, the notifications are to inform you of upcoming seminars, document requirements, and other notifications. You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Just text “STOP” to the short code. After you send the SMS message “STOP” to us, we will send you an SMS message to confirm that you have unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time, and we will start sending SMS messages to you again. If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program, you can reply with the keyword HELP for more assistance, or you can get help directly at info@homecareagencymo.com. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. As always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. The message frequency may vary. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider. No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
You have some choices in the way that we use and share information as we provide updates on your treatment or care to your family and friends; market our services; and/or participate in fundraising efforts.
Sharing with Family/Friends: For certain health information, you can tell us your choices about what we share. If you have a clear preference for how we share your information in the situations described below, please provide us with your instructions. In these cases, you have both the right and choice to tell us to:
– Share information with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care
– Share information in a disaster relief situation
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.
Marketing: We never share your information for marketing purposes unless you give us written permission.
Fundraising: We may contact you for fundraising efforts, but you can tell us not to contact you again.
Individual Rights
You have the right to request and receive a copy of your paper or electronic health record and the information we have about you. To make such a request, please contact: info@homecareagencymo.com. We will provide a copy or a summary of your health information, usually within 30 days of your request. We may charge a reasonable, cost-based fee.
You have the right to correct or amend your paper or electronic medical record. To make such a request, please contact: info@homecareagencymo.com. However, at times we may deny your request to correct or amend, but we will tell you why in writing within 60 days of your request.
You have the right to request confidential communications. You can ask us to contact you in a specific way (for example, home or office phone) or to send mail to a different address, and we will comply with all reasonable requests. To make such a request, please contact: info@homecareagencymo.com.
You have the right to choose someone to act on your behalf. If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your health information. We will make sure the person has this authority and can act for you before we take any action.
You have the right to request we limit the information we share. You can ask us not to use or share certain health information for treatment, payment, or our operations. We are not required to agree to your request, and we may say “no” if it would affect your care. If you pay for a service or health care item out-of-pocket in full, you can ask us not to share that information for the purpose of payment or our operations with your health insurer. We will say “yes” unless a law requires us to share that information. To make such a request, please contact: info@homecareagencymo.com.
You have the right to request an accounting of those with whom we have shared your information. You can ask for an accounting (listing) of the times we’ve shared your health information within the 6 years prior to the date of your request, including with whom we shared your information and why. We will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures (such as any you asked us to make). To request this list or accounting of disclosures, please contact: info@homecareagencymo.com
You have the right to receive a copy of this Privacy Policy. You can request a paper copy of this Privacy Policy at any time by contacting us at info@homecareagencymo.com.
