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Each time you visit CCRPM, a record of your visit
is made. Typically, this record contains your symptoms, examination
and test results, diagnoses, treatment, and a plan for future care
or treatment. This information, often referred to as your health
or medical record, serves as a:
- Basis for planning your care and treatment,
- Means of communication among the many health
professionals who contribute to your care,
- Legal document describing the care you received,
- Means by which you or a third-party payer can
verify that services billed were actually provided,
- A tool in educating heath professionals,
- A source of data for medical research,
- A source of information for public health officials
charged with improving the health of this state and the nation,
- A source of data for our planning and marketing,
- A tool with which we can assess and continually
work to improve the care we render and the outcomes we achieve.
Understanding what is in your record and how your
health information is used helps you to: ensure its accuracy, better
understand who, what, when, where, and why others may access your
health information, and make more informed decisions when authorizing
disclosure to others.
Although your health record is the physical property
of CCRPM, the information belongs to you. You have the right to:
- Obtain a paper copy
of this notice of information practices upon request,
- Inspect and obtain a copy your health record
as provided for in 45 CFR 164.524, [May be a fee to copy]
- Amend your health record as provided in 45
CFR 164.528,
- Obtain an accounting of disclosures of your
health information as provided in 45 CFR 164.528,
- Request communications of your health information
by alternative means or at alternative locations, and
- Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures
of your information as provided by 45 CFR 164.522, and
- Revoke your authorization to use or disclose
health information except to the extent that action has already
been taken.
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