NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
Effective Date: 12/17/2007
We are committed to preserving the privacy of your personal health information. We are required by law to protect the privacy of your medical information and to provide you with Notice describing how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can access this information.
We are required by law to have your written consent before we use or disclose to others your medical information for purposes other than providing or arranging for your health care, the payment for or reimbursement of the care that we provide to you and the related administrative activities supporting your treatment.
We may be required or permitted by certain laws to use and disclose your medical information for other purposes without your consent or authorization.
As our client, you have important rights relating to inspecting and copying your medical information that we maintain, amending or correctly that information, obtaining an accounting of our disclosures of your medical information, requesting that we communicate with you confidentially, requesting that we restrict certain uses and disclosures of your health information, and complaining if you think your rights have been violated.
We have available a detailed Notice of Privacy Practices which fully explains your rights and our obligations under the law. We may revise out Notice from time to time. The effective date at the bottom of this page indicates the date of the most current Notice in effect.
You have the right to receive a copy of our most current Notice in effect. If you have not yet reserved a copy of our current Notice, please ask the person listed below and we will provide you with a copy.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the Notice or your medical information, please contact Vice President, Benefits Service Operations at eni at 800-364-4748
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.
Employee Network, Inc. is required by law to maintain the privacy of your health information and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your health information.
Effective Date of This Notice: 3/1/2003
I. How Employee Network, Inc. may Use or Disclose Your Health Information
Employee Network, Inc. collects health information from you and stores it in a chart and on a computer. This is your medical record. The medical record is the property of Employee Network, Inc., but the information in the medical record belongs to you. Employee Network, Inc. protects the privacy of your health information. The law permits Employee Network, Inc. to use or disclose your health information for the following purposes:
1. Treatment. “Treatment” generally means the provision, coordination, or management of health care and related services among health care providers or by a health care provider with a third party, consultation between health care providers regarding a patient, or the referral of a patient from one health care provider to another.
2. Payment. “Payment” encompasses the various activities of health care providers to obtain payment or be reimbursed for their services and of a health plan to obtain premiums, to fulfill their coverage responsibilities and provide benefits under the plan, and to obtain or provide reimbursement for the provision of health care. Payment includes but is not limited to the following: Utilization review, determining eligibility and reviewing health care services for medical necessity.
3. Regular Health Care Operations. “Health care operations” are certain administrative, financial, legal, and quality improvement activities of a covered entity that are necessary to run its business and to support the core functions of treatment and payment.
Uses and Disclosures of Psychotherapy Notes. Except when psychotherapy notes are used by the originator to carry out treatment, or by the covered entity for certain other limited health care operations, uses and disclosures of psychotherapy require the individual’s authorization. See 45 CFR 164.508(a)(2).
4. Information Provided to you.
5. Notification and communication with family. We may disclose your health information to notify or assist in notifying a family member, your personal representative or another person responsible for your care about your location, your general condition or in the event of your death. If you are able and available to agree or object, we will give you the opportunity to object prior to making this notification. If you are unable or unavailable to agree or object, our health professionals will use their best judgment in communication with your family and others.
6. Required by law. As required by law, we may use and disclose your health information.
7. Public health. As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting child abuse or neglect; reporting domestic violence; reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications; and reporting disease or infection exposure.
8. Health oversight activities. We may disclose your health information to health agencies during the course of audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and other proceedings.
9. Judicial and administrative Proceedings. We may disclose your health information in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding.
10. Law enforcement. We may disclose your health information to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying of locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with a court order or subpoena and other law enforcement purposes.
11. Deceased person information. We may disclose your health information to coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors.
12. Public Safety. We may disclose your health information to appropriate persons in order to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public.
13. Specialized government functions. We may disclose your health information for military, national security, prisoner and government benefits purposes.
14. Worker’s compensation. We may disclose your health information as necessary to comply with worker’s compensation laws.
15. Marketing. We may contact you to provide appointment reminders or to give you information about other treatments or health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you.
16. Health Plan. We may disclose your health information to the sponsor of your health plan.
17. Change of Ownership. In the event that Employee Network, Inc. is sold or merged with another organization, your health information/record will become the property of the new owner.
II. When Employee Network, Inc. May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information
Except as described in this Notice of Privacy Practices, Employee Network, Inc. will not use or disclose your health information without your written authorization. If you do authorize Employee Network, Inc. to use or disclose your health information for another purpose, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time.
III Your Health Information Rights
NOTE: While some of these rights have been expanded to include the basic limitations provided under the law, each should be considered in light of the permitted conditions under the law and the Employee Network, Inc.’s actual practices and that each right is not absolute, and is subject to some limitations and conditions.
1. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information. Employee Network, Inc. is not required to agree to the restriction that you requested.
2. You have the right to receive your health information through a reasonable alternative means or at an alternative location.
3. You have the right to inspect and copy your health information.
4. You have a right to request that Employee Network, Inc. amend your health information that is incorrect or incomplete as clinically appropriate.
5. You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by Employee Network, Inc., except for the disclosures described in parts I (treatment), 2 (payment), 3 (health care operations), 4 (information provided to you), and 16 (certain government functions) of section I of this Notice of Privacy Practices.
6. You have a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices.
V. How Employee Network, Inc. may Use Social Login Information
1. What kind of information do we collect from Facebook account?
Upon successful Facebook login we get users public profile and email address information. Public profile includes name, profile picture, age range, gender, language, country and other public info.
2. How do we use this information?
We use email address to validate user existence in our system to avoid duplication, public profile is neither used nor kept in our systems.
3. How is this information shared?
Except email address', public profile is neither used nor kept in our system. Email Address' are used for authentication, authorization, to receive benefits notifications and to get response from the Benefits specialist for their posted queries.
VI. Changes to this Notice of Privacy Practices
Employee Network, Inc. reserves the right to amend this Notice of Privacy Practices at any time in the future. Until such amendment is made, Employee Network, Inc. is required by law to comply with this Notice.
Revisions will be distributed to participants by mail.
VII. Complaints
Complaints about this Notice of Privacy Practices or how Employee Network, Inc. handles your health information should be directed to:
Vice President
Benefits Service Operations
1040 Vestal Parkway East
Vestal, NY 13850
800-364-4748 ext 223
If you are not satisfied with the manner in which this office handles a complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to:
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Civil Rights
Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg.
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 509F HHH Building
Washington, DC 20201