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Notice of Privacy Practices | HIPAA | University of Nebraska Medical Center Menu Privacy and Information Security Clinical Researchers  Well-nighHIPAAUnitedCovered Entity Structure Notice of Privacy Practices Campus Joint Governance Structure Information Security Campus Compliance Plan HIPAA (Office ofStarchyRights) HIPAA Enforcement Final Rule (2006) HIPAA HITECH Combined Regulation (2013) Joint Privacy/Information Security Governance Structure (Functional Chart)   Forms   Policies & Procedures University Wide Security Policies UNMC Policy Index Statement of Understanding 2018   Training Materials Articles Presentations Training Posters UNMC › HIPAA ›Well-nighHIPAA › Notice of Privacy Practices Notice of Privacy Practices  Affiliated Covered Entity Structure  Notice of Privacy Practices  Campus Joint Governance Structure  Information Security  Campus Compliance Plan  HIPAA (Office ofStarchyRights)  HIPAA Enforcement Final Rule (2006)  HIPAA HITECH Combined Regulation (2013)  Joint Privacy/Information Security Governance Structure (Functional Chart) Notice of Privacy Practices - How Your Medical Information Is Used .pdf documents Notice of Privacy Practices Notice of Privacy Practices for Visually Impaired Notice of Privacy Practices - Spanish Notice of Privacy Practices - Spanish for Visually Impaired Notice of Privacy Practices for Dental Patients Notice of Privacy Practices for Dental Patients for Visually Impaired 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. This Notice applies to the pursuit organizations and clinics: The Nebraska Medical Center and its medical staff, including wonk and private practice physicians, and cooperating health professionals while providing services at these locations, as an organized health superintendency arrangement. The Bellevue Medical Center and its medical staff and cooperating health professionals as an organized healthcare arrangement. University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) UNMC Physicians Nebraska Pediatric Practice, Inc. University DentalToadies(UDA) The organizations listed whilom will use and distribute this Notice as their Joint Notice of Privacy Practices and follow the information practices described in this Notice when using or disclosing records and information. They will share your health information with each other, as necessary, to siphon out treatment, payment, or health superintendency operations as described in this Notice. Understanding Your Health Information Each time you visit a hospital, clinic, physician, or other health superintendency provider, a record of your visit is made. Typically, this health record contains your medical history, symptoms, viewing and test results, diagnosis, treatment, superintendency plan, insurance, billing, and employment information. This health information, often referred to as your health record, serves as a understructure for planning your superintendency and treatment and is a vital ways of liaison among the many health professionals who contribute to your health care. Your health information is moreover used by insurance companies and other third-party payers to verify the righteousness of billed services. Our Responsibilities We are required by law to: Maintain the privacy of your health information during your lifetime and for 50 years pursuit your death. Provide you with an spare current reprinting of our Notice upon request. Abide by the terms of our current Notice. Notify you pursuit a violate of unsecured protected health information in the event you are affected. We will not use or unroll your health information without your written authorization, except as described in this Notice. Uses And Disclosures Without Your WrittenPassportWe may use and unroll your health information without your written passport for Treatment, Payment and HealthSuperintendencyOperations We will use and unroll your health information for treatment purposes For example: Information obtained by a nurse, physician or other member of your health superintendency team will be recorded in your record and used to determine the undertow of treatment. Health superintendency team members will communicate with one flipside personally and through the health record to coordinate superintendency provided. We will moreover provide your physician or subsequent health superintendency provider with copies of various reports that should squire him or her in treating you in the future. We will use and unroll your health information for payment purposes For example: A snout may be sent to you or a third-party payer. The information on or twin the snout may include information that identifies you, as well as your diagnosis, procedures, and supplies used. We may unroll health information well-nigh you to other qualified parties for their payment purposes. For example, if you are brought in by ambulance, we may unroll your health information to the ambulance provider for its billing purposes. We will use and unroll your health information for health superintendency operations For example: Members of the medical staff, the risk or quality resurgence manager, or members of the quality resurgence team may use information in your health record to assess the superintendency and outcomes in your specimen and others like it. This information will then be used in an effort to continually modernize the quality and effectiveness of health superintendency we provide. In some cases, we will replenish your health information to other qualified parties for their health superintendency operations. The ambulance company, for example, may want information regarding your condition to help them know whether they have washed-up an constructive job of stabilizing your condition. Health InformationMartWe may make your protected health information misogynist electronically through an information mart service to other health superintendency providers, health plans and health superintendency clearinghouses that request your information. Participation in information mart services moreover lets us see their information well-nigh you. Teaching As the primary teaching site for UNMC, residents, fellows, and students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, cooperating health and graduate studies, may be profitable with your superintendency under the supervision of a licensed health superintendency provider as a part of their professional health superintendency training program. Other Uses and Disclosures of your health information without your written passport Notification We may use or unroll health information to notify or squire in notifying a family member, personal representative, or flipside person responsible for your superintendency of your location and unstipulated condition.LiaisonWith Family and Others We may unroll relevant health information to a family member, friend, or other person involved in your care. We will only unroll this information if you agree, are given the opportunity to object and do not, or if in our professional judgment, it would be in your weightier interest to indulge the person to receive the information or act on your behalf. Directory Unless you notify us that you object, or we are otherwise prohibited by law, we may use your name, location in the facility, unstipulated condition, and religious troupe for directory purposes. This information may be provided to members of the clergy, and, except for religious affiliation, to other people who ask for you by name.MerchantryAssociates There are some services provided in our organization through contracts with merchantry associates. When these services are contracted, we may unroll your health information to our merchantry toadies so that they can perform such services. However, we require the merchantry socialize to thus safeguard your information.VisitReminders We may contact you as a reminder that you have an visit for treatment or medical care. Treatment Alternatives We may contact you well-nigh treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. Fundraising We may use and unroll your health information to our merchantry toadies and united foundations for fundraising purposes. We may contact you in an effort to raise money for clinical programs, research and education. If you do not want us to contact you for fundraising efforts, you must notify the Development Office by telephone toll-free at 800-647-6216, by email at development@nebraskamed.com or in writing at 987430 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, 68198-7430. Research Research is conducted under strict UNMC Institutional Review Board (IRB) guidelines designed to protect the subjects of research. Health information well-nigh you may be disclosed to researchers preparing to self-mastery a research project. For example, it may be necessary for researchers to squint for patients with specific medical characteristics or treatments to prepare a research protocol. For very research studies we would obtain your specific authorization, if information that directly identifies you is disclosed. The only exception would be circumstances when the IRB grants a waiver of passport as permitted under federal guidelines. Public Health We may unroll health information well-nigh you for public health activities. These activities may include disclosures: To a public health validity authorized by law to collect or receive such information for the purpose of preventing or executive disease, injury, or disability; To towardly authorities authorized to receive reports of vituperate and neglect; To FDA-regulated entities for purposes of monitoring or reporting the quality, safety or effectiveness of FDA-regulated products; or To notify a person who may have been exposed to a disease or may be at risk for contracting or spreading a disease or condition. With parent or guardian permission, to send vestige of required immunizations to a school. Workers’BountyWe may unroll health information to the extent authorized and necessary to comply with laws relating to workers’ bounty or other similar programs established by law. Correctional Institutions If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under custody of a law enforcement official, we may unroll to the correctional institution, its teachers or the law enforcement official your health information necessary for your health or the health and safety of other individuals. Law Enforcement We may unroll your health information for law enforcement purposes: At the request of a law enforcement official and in response to a subpoena, magistrate order, investigative demand or other lawful process; If we believe it is vestige of criminal self-mastery occurring on our premises; If you are a victim of treason and we obtain your agreement, or under unrepealable circumstances, if we are unable to obtain your agreement; To identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person; To zestful authorities that a death may be the result of criminal conduct; To report a crime, the location of the treason or victim, or the identity, unravelment or location of the person who single-minded the crime. Health Oversight Activities We may unroll health information for health oversight activities authorized by law. For example, oversight activities include audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health superintendency system, government programs and compliance with starchy rights laws. Threats to Health or Safety Under unrepealable circumstances, we may use or unroll your health information if we believe it is necessary to preclude or lessen a serious threat to health and safety and is to a person reasonably worldly-wise to prevent or lessen the threat or is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or sneeze an individual involved in a crime. Specialized Government Functions We may unroll your information for national security and intelligence activities authorized by law, for protective services of the president; or if you are a military member, to the military under limited circumstances. As Required by Law We will use or unroll your health information as required by federal, State or local law. Lawsuits andLegalisticProceedings We may release your health information in response to a magistrate or legalistic order. We may moreover provide your information in response to a subpoena or other discovery request, but only if efforts have been made to tell you well-nigh the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. Funeral Directors, Medical Examiners, and Coroners We may unroll your health information to funeral directors, medical examiners, and coroners resulting with workable law to siphon out their duties. Organ Procurement OrganizationsResultingwith workable law, we may unroll health information to organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement, banking, or transplantation of organs for the purpose of tissue donation and transplant. Incidental Uses and Disclosures There are unrepealable incidental uses or disclosures of your health information that occur while we are providing services to you or conducting our business. For example, without surgery the nurse or doctor may need to use your name to identify family members that may be waiting for you in a waiting area. Other individuals waiting in the same zone may hear your name called. We will make reasonable efforts to limit these incidental uses and disclosures. Uses And Disclosures That Require Your WrittenPassportThe pursuit uses and disclosures will only be made with your written authorization: Uses and disclosures not listed whilom as permitted without your written authorization; most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes; uses and disclosures for our marketing purposes; and disclosures that constitute a sale of your health information. Your passport may be revoked in writing at any time except with respect to any deportment we have taken in reliance on it. Your Health Information Rights You have the pursuit rights regarding your health information: Right to Inspect andReprintingYou may request to squint at your medical and billing records and obtain a copy. You must submit your medical records request to the Health Information Management Department. Contact the office listed on your billing statement to request a reprinting of your billing record. If you ask for a reprinting of your records, we may tuition you a copying fee plus postage. If we maintain an electronic health record well-nigh you, you have the right to request your reprinting in electronic format. Right to RequestSummonsYou may request that your health information be amended if you finger that the information is not correct. Your request must be in writing and provide rationale for the amendment. Please send your request to the Health Information Management Department. We may deny your request, and will notify you of our visualization in writing. Right to anWrittenof Disclosures You may request an written of unrepealable disclosures of your health information showing with whom your health information has been shared (does not wield to disclosures to you, with your authorization, for treatment, payment or health superintendency operations, and in unrepealable other cases). To request an written of disclosures, you must send a written request to the Health Information Management Department. Your request must state a time period that may not be longer than six years. Right to Request Restrictions You may request restrictions on how your health information is used for treatment, payment or health superintendency operations or disclosed to unrepealable family members or others who are involved in your care. We may deny your request with one exception. If we stipulate to a voluntary restriction, the restriction may be lifted if use of the information is necessary to provide emergency treatment. We are required to stipulate to your request that we not unroll unrepealable health information to your health plan for payment or health superintendency operations purposes, if you pay in full for all expenses related to that service prior to your request and the disclosure is not otherwise required by law. Such a restriction will only wield to records that relate solely to the service for which you have paid in full. If we later receive an passport from you dated without the stage of your requested restriction which authorizes us to unroll all of your records to your health plan, we will seem you have withdrawn your request for restriction. To request a restriction, you must send a written request to the Health Information Management Department, specifying what information you wish to restrict and to whom the restriction applies. You will receive a written response to your request. Right to Request Private Communications You may request that we communicate with you in a unrepealable way in a unrepealable location. You must make your request in writing to the patient registration staff and explain how or where you wish to be contacted. Right to a PaperReprintingof this Notice You may request an spare paper reprinting of this Notice at any time from any patient registration area. You may contact the Health Information Management Department at: 989100 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska 68198-9100 Phone: (402) 559-4705 Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CST Changes to this Notice We reserve the right to transpiration this Notice as our privacy practices transpiration and to make the new provisions constructive for all health information we maintain. We will post a current Notice in patient registration areas and on our websites. For More Information or to Report a Problem If you have questions or would like spare information, you may contact the Patient Relations Department. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with the Patient Relations Department or with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There will be no retaliation for filing a complaint. You may contact the Patient Relations Department at: 982133 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska 68198-2133 Phone: 800-647-6216 or 402-559-8158 Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. CSTConstructiveDate: 9/13 Version No. 5  Affiliated Covered Entity Structure  Notice of Privacy Practices  Campus Joint Governance Structure  Information Security  Campus Compliance Plan  HIPAA (Office ofStarchyRights)  HIPAA Enforcement Final Rule (2006)  HIPAA HITECH Combined Regulation (2013)  Joint Privacy/Information Security Governance Structure (Functional Chart) University of Nebraska Medical Center 42nd and Emile, Omaha, NE 68198 402-559-4000|Contact Us Explore UNMC.eduWell-nighUs Education Research Outreach PatientSuperintendencyNews & Events Quick Links Canvas Intranet E-mail Calendar MyRecords Library Follow Us             © 2018 University of Nebraska Medical Center University Computer Use Policy | Copyright Violations | Notice of Privacy Practices | Notice of Nondiscrimination | Comments | View Full Site