As a patient, you have a number of rights with respect to the protection of your PHI, including: -
The right to access, copy or inspect your PHI
This means you may come to our offices and inspect and copy most of
the medical information about you that we maintain. We will normally
provide you with access to this information within 30 days of your
request. We may also charge you a reasonable fee for you to copy any
medical information that you have the right to access. In limited
circumstances, we may deny you access to your medical information, and
you may appeal certain types of denials.
We have available forms to request access to your PHI and we will
provide a written response if we deny you access and let you know your
appeal rights. If you wish to inspect and copy your medical information,
you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this
Notice.
The right to amend your PHI
You have the right to ask us to amend written medical information
that we may have about you. We will generally amend your information
within 60 days of your request and will notify you when we have amended
the information. We are permitted by law to deny your request to amend
your medical information only in certain circumstances, like when we
believe the information you have asked us to amend is correct. If you
wish to request that we amend the medical information that we have about
you, you should contact the privacy officer listed at the end of this
Notice.
The right to request an accounting of our use and disclosure of your
PHI. You may request an accounting from us of certain disclosures of
your medical information that we have made in the last six years prior
to the date of your request. We are not required to give you an
accounting of information we have used or disclosed for purposes of
treatment, payment or health care operations, or when we share your
health information with our business associates, like our billing
company or a medical facility from/to which we have transported you.
We are also not required to give you an accounting
of our uses of protected health information for which you have already
given us written authorization. If you wish to request an accounting of
the medical information about you that we have used or disclosed that is
not exempted from the accounting requirement, you should contact the
privacy officer listed at the end of this Notice.
The right to request that we restrict the uses and disclosures of your PHI
You have the right to request that we restrict how we use and
disclose your medical information that we have about you for treatment,
payment or health care operations, or to restrict the information that
is provided to family, friends and other individuals involved in your
health care. But if you request a restriction and the information you
asked us to restrict is needed to provide you with emergency treatment,
then we may use the PHI or disclose the PHI to a health care provider to
provide you with emergency treatment. Alachua County Fire Rescue is not
required to agree to any restrictions you request, but any restrictions
agreed to by Alachua County Fire Rescue are binding on Alachua County
Fire Rescue.
Internet, Electronic Mail, and the Right to Obtain Copy of Paper Notice on Request
If we maintain a web site, we will prominently post a copy of this
Notice on our web site and make the Notice available electronically
through the web site. If you allow us, we will forward you this Notice
by electronic mail instead of on paper and you may always request a
paper copy of the Notice.