PATIENTS & VISITORS

Patient Privacy Statement

We are required by law to maintain the privacy of your medical information and to provide you with notice of our legal duties, privacy practices, and your rights with respect to your medical information. Your medical information includes your individually identifiable medical, insurance, demographic and medical payment information. For example, it includes information about your diagnosis, medications, insurance status and policy number, medical claims history, address, and social security number.

Who Will Follow This Notice?

Alaska Neurology Center

This Notice describes the privacy practices of Alaska Neurology Center (AKNC) and all of its programs and departments.

MEDICAL STAFF

.Alaska Neurology Center(AKNC) and it’s staff must be able to share your medical information freely for treatment, payment and health care operations as described in this Notice. Because of this, AKNC and all eligible providers on the AKNC Medical Staff have entered into the OHCA under which AKNC and the eligible providers will:

Use this Notice as a joint notice of privacy practices for all inpatient and outpatient visits and follow all information practices described in this notice;
Obtain a single signed acknowledgment of receipt; and
Share medical information from inpatient and outpatient hospital visits with eligible providers so that they can help the Hospital with its health care operations.

The OHCA does not cover the information practices of practitioners in their private offices or at other practice locations.

Uses and Disclosures of Information Without your Authorization

The following are the types of uses and disclosures we may make of your medical information without your permission. Where State or federal law restricts one of the described uses or disclosures, we follow the requirements of such State or federal law. These are general descriptions only. They do not cover every example of disclosure within a category.

TREATMENT

We will use and disclose your medical information for treatment. For example, we will share medical information about you with our nurses, your physicians and others who are involved in your care at the clinic.. We will also disclose your medical information to your physician and other practitioners, providers and health care facilities for their use in treating you in the future. For example, if you are transferred to a nursing facility, we will send medical information about you to the medical facility. Medical Record information fall under HIPAA. For detailed explanation go to

The HIPAA Privacy Rule

The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals' medical records and other individually identifiable health information (collectively defined as “protected health information”) and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without an individual’s authorization. The Rule also gives individuals rights over their protected health information, including rights to examine and obtain a copy of their health records, to direct a covered entity to transmit to a third party an electronic copy of their protected health information in an electronic health record, and to request corrections. For more information https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/index.html

The Privacy Rule is located at 45 CFR Part 160 and Subparts A and E of Part 164.

Click here to view the combined regulation text of all HIPAA Administrative Simplification Regulations found at 45 CFR 160, 162, and 164.

* Our compliance with relevant laws and regulations regarding data protection

TO USE SMS FOR EMPLOYEE USE ONLY, WE MUST STATE THIS ON OUR WEBSITE SMS consent, and the phone number will never be shared, sold, or disclosed.We will NEVER COLLECT, SHARE, OBTAIN our patents information with any third party or affiliated party, or for marketing purposes through this website.

Patient Privacy Statement