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Privacy Notice
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND
DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY.
Ready Set Connect respects your right to privacy, especially related to your personal health information. To ensure
your privacy,
all employees, contracted providers, volunteers, and companies performing business functions for Ready Set
Connect will treat
personal and identifiable health information with the utmost confidentiality. Ready Set Connect is required by law to
maintain the
privacy of your health information, to follow the terms of this Notice , and to inform you of our legal duties and privacy
practices
with respect to your health information.
How Ready Set Connect May Use or Disclose Your Health Information
1. Ready Set Connect will need to utilize and release personal health information for treatment, payment and
healthcare
operations. A) Treatment - We will use your health information to provide the evaluation and consultation services
you
have requested. We may disclose your health information to Ready Set Connect therapists and other persons
involved in
providing or coordinating your services. B) Payment - We may use and disclose your health information so that your
assistive technology services may be billed to, and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company or a
third
party. C) Healthcare Operations - We may use and/or disclose health information in connection with our own quality
assessment activities and for training and supervision of staff members.
2. We will share your protected health information with third party "business associates" performing various activities
that
are essential to the operations of our organization. The release of confidential information to business associates will
occur only when necessary to provide the services you requested or to process essential functions such as billing,
accounting, quality assurance, or legal and financial activities.
3. The staff of Ready Set Connect may use confidential information to provide you with appointment reminders or
information related to treatment alternatives. Additional activities may include the assessment and design of program
activities and/or to generate informational mailings. A consumer may request to be removed from the Ready Set
Connect
mailing list by simply calling the privacy officer at 800.932.5837.
4. We will disclose health information about you when required by federal, state or local law.
5. We may disclose health information relative to adverse events with respect to product and product defects, or post
marketing surveillance information to enable product recalls, repairs, or replacement
6. As required by law, we may disclose your health information to public health or legal authorities charged with
preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability.
7. We may disclose protected health information in the course of any judicial or administrative proceeding, in
response to
an order of a court or administrative tribunal (to the extent such disclosure is expressly authorized), and, in certain
situations, in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process.
8. We may disclose health information for the following specific government functions: a) health information of military
personnel, as required by military command authorities; b) health information of inmates, to a correctional institution
or
law enforcement official; and c) in response to a request from law enforcement, if certain conditions are satisfied.
Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information Based upon Your Written Authorization
Other uses and disclosures of your protected health information will be made only with your written authorization,
unless
otherwise permitted or required by law as described in this Notice. You may revoke this authorization, at any time, in
writing,
except to the extent that we have already relied upon your authorization in making a disclosure.