Privacy Policy Overview
Advent Home Medical has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. Advent Home Medical believes that strong electronic privacy is crucial. Therefore, unless you designate otherwise, any information you enter within these publications will be known only to you and Advent Home Medical.
We pledge that Advent Home Medical will not release your personal data to anyone else without your consent - period. Contact information may be used occasionally by Advent Home Medical to notify users of new services, events or the like, but will not be given or sold to third parties.
When we do present user information to our advertisers or audience, it is in the form of statistical compilations of data from visitors' answers to survey questions as well as grouped on-site behavior.
Our site contains links to other sites. Advent Home Medical is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Notice of Privacy Practices
THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Commitment to Privacy
Advent Home Medical is dedicated to maintaining the privacy of your healthcare information and we are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of information that identifies you. Any use of healthcare information beyond the uses described below requires your individual written authorization. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) obligates Advent Home Medical to provide you with a copy of our Privacy Notice, outlining our privacy practices and how we safeguard your health information. Advent Home Medical abides by the terms of the Privacy Notice currently in effect, and reserves the right to revise or amend the notice, as needed.
Your Health Information Rights
Although your health record is the physical property of the health care facility that compiled it, the information belongs to you. You have the right to:
- Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your information
- Obtain a paper copy of the notice of privacy practices
- Inspect and copy your health care record
- Amend your health care record
- Revoke your authorization to use or disclose health information except to the extent that action has already been taken.
Our Responsibilities
Advent Home medical is required to:
- Maintain the privacy of your health information
- Provide you with a notice as to our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to the information we collect and maintain about you
- Abide by the terms of this notice
- Notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction
- Accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health information by alternate means
Advent Home Medical reserves the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all protected health information we maintain. Should our information practices change we will send a revised notice to your address on file. We will not use or disclose your health information without your authorization, except for treatment, payment and healthcare operations.
Examples of Disclosure for Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare Operations
We will use your health information for treatment. Information obtained by our company will be documented in your healthcare record and will be used to provide you with durable medical equipment.