Privacy & 您的健康信息
You have privacy rights under a federal law that protects your health information. 这些权利对你来说很重要. Federal law sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive your health information.
谁必须遵守这条法律?
- Doctors, nurses, 药店, hospitals, clinics, 养老院, 以及许多其他医疗保健提供者及其供应商
- 健康保险公司，hmo和大多数雇主团体健康计划
- Certain 政府 programs that pay for healthcare, such as Medicare and Medicaid
哪些信息受保护?
- 信息 your doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers put in your medical records
- Conversations your doctor has with nurses and others regarding your care or treatment
- 你在你的健康保险公司的电脑系统中的信息
- 你在诊所的账单信息
- Most other health information about you held by those who must follow this law
你对自己的健康信息有权利
- Providers and health insurers who are required to follow this law must comply with your right to:
- 要求查看并获得一份健康记录的副本
- 是否将更正信息添加到您的健康信息中
- Receiving notice that tells you how your health information may be used and shared
- Decide if you want to give your permission before your health information can be used or shared for certain purposes, 比如市场营销
- Get a report on when and why your health information was shared for certain purposes
- 提出投诉
If you believe your health information was used or shared in a way that is not allowed under the privacy law, 或者你不能行使你的权利, 你可以向你的医疗服务提供者或健康保险公司投诉. 你也可以向美国海关投诉.S. 政府. 上网: http://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/smartscreen/main.jsf
To make sure that your health information is protected in a way that doesn’t interfere with your health care, 您的信息可以被使用和共享:
- 为您的治疗和护理协调
- 支付医生和医院的医疗费用
- 和你的家人, relatives, friends or others you identify who are involved with your healthcare or your healthcare bills, 除非你反对
- 确保医生提供良好的护理，确保养老院干净安全
- To protect the public’s health, such as by reporting when the flu is in your area
- To make required reports to the police, such as reporting gunshot wounds
未经您的书面许可，您的提供商不得:
- 把你的健康信息告诉你的雇主
- Use or share your health information for marketing or advertising purposes
- 分享你心理健康咨询的私人笔记
改编自美国.S. 卫生署 & 民权事务办公室.
A separate law provides additional privacy protections to patients of alcohol and drug treatment programs. 欲了解更多信息，请访问www.samhsa.gov.
