THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.
NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.
The health screening programs (the "Screening Programs") provided by Employee Heatlth Management systems. ("EHMS") are designed to help participants assess their risk for disease and to provide information from EHMS (or from the sponsors of its programs) about common health issues, such as high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and others, and products to treat those conditions. This Notice of Privacy Practices ("Notice") explains the limited degree to which we may collect, use and aggregate personal health information about participants that is provided to or collected by EHMS through participation in the Screening Programs. EHMS respects personal privacy and is committed to protecting it. EHMS is particularly sensitive to the privacy of medical and health information.
Your Acceptance of this Notice
By participating in the Screening Programs, participants signify their acceptance of the terms of EHMS's Notice of Privacy Practices. However, if you do not agree to the terms of this Notice, you may not participate in a Screening Program.
Information Submitted and Collected: The Personal Health Questionnaire
In order to participate in an EHMS Screening Program, participants must complete a personal health questionnaire consisting of a number of questions about personal and family medical history related to heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other common diseases. We will use this information during the clinical screening to help assess the risk for heart disease. After the screening, the responses to the personal health questionnaire will be used by EHMS for the following: conducting market research to improve the programs, products and services offered by EHMS; to advance the understanding of pathophysiology and therapeutic approaches to treating disease; and to provide participants with information about common health issues, such as high cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure and products to treat those conditions, which may be delivered to participants by EHMS or its business partners (as described below in the section "Sharing of Information").
Sharing of Information
Unless required by law, EHMS will not sell or disclose personally identifiable health information to any third party without permission. In certain instances, Impact Health's business partners, such as pharmaceutical companies, may sponsor Screening Programs administered by EHMS such cases, subject to the participant's consent, EHMS may provide personally identifiable health information to its business partners so that they may provide information about common health issue and products to treat certain common health conditions. De-identified information provided to or collected by EHMS, that is, information that has been stripped of all data elements that personally identify participants or could be reasonably used to identify participants, may be stored, used or sold by EHMS for any business-related purpose.
In the event that EHMS, or any part of EHMS's operations, is merged with, or acquired by, another entity, then any successor or acquiring entity that continues EHMS's business will assume our obligations with respect to all personal health information that has been provided to or collected by EHMS. By participating in a Screening Program, participants also consent to the use of personal health information by such an entity.
Voluntary Participation and Withdrawal
Participants may choose not to complete the healthcare questionnaire. Further, if they complete the questionnaire and later change their mind and withdraw their consent, we will block any further release of personally identifiable health information about them, and their family, that can be used to identify or contact them.
Duration of Your Consent
Unless participants contact EHMS to withdraw their consent, the healthcare questionnaire information may be stored and used internally by EHMS indefinitely.
Openness
This Notice of Privacy Practices is part of EHMS's commitment to protect the privacy of participants in the Screening Programs. This Notice may be amended from time to time as we add programs and services and as laws change; however, we display a version number and date on the Notice so that you will know when there has been a change.
Security
EHMS wants all personal health information to remain as secure as reasonably possible. Maintaining a secure system is in the best interests of our customers, program participants and partners. Therefore, EHMS stores all personally identifiable health data using industry standard physical, technical and administrative safeguards to secure data against foreseeable risks, such as unauthorized use, access, disclosure, destruction and modification. In addition, only authorized EHMS employees are permitted to access personal health information, and such employees are subject to EHMS's code of conduct with respect to such information. Any EHMS employee who intentionally violates our Privacy Policy is subject to disciplinary action, including termination. After a screening event, all healthcare questionnaire information will be stored in locked files and on separate EHMS computer servers, and only EHMS and its successors will have access to the information.
Accountability
We have provided this Notice to communicate the specifics of our commitment to privacy. In addition, EHMS will address any complaints or questions that our program participants may have regarding the policies contained in this Notice or their implementation. If you have a complaint or question about this Notice, please call 1-866-833-5737 or visit http://www.ehms.com.
EHMS will address all privacy concerns in a prompt and equitable manner.