Privacy Policy

Oxford Medical Centre understands the immediate concern about Patient Confidentiality and Patient Information Confidentiality. Oxford Medical Centre has established 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.

This Privacy Policy gives you, but not limited to:

• The right to see and get a copy of YOUR health records, and to ask for corrections if the information is wrong

• The right to get a report on when and why YOUR health information was used

• The right to ask to be reached somewhere other than at home, for example if being contacted at home would put YOU in danger

• The right to ask that YOUR information NOT be shared

• The right to direct an authorized entity to transmit to a third party, an electronic copy of YOUR protected health information in an electronic health record

PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

“Personal information” means any information that may be used to identify an individual. Personal information includes information such as your name, address, telephone number,   e-mail address, and other similar information.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

To access healthcare from Oxford Medical Centre, you must first complete a brief registration form. During registration you are required to provide certain personal information (such as name, address, gender, contact number, and email). By registering, you agree to receive certain communications from Oxford Medical Centre in concordance with your health.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information collected through our registration is used by us to, among other things, process and manage your records, operate and improve our database, track revisits and your feedback, make revisits easier for you by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly registering with the same information, and for other purposes pursuant to your consent. We also use your personal information to communicate with you in other ways. For instance, we may use your personal information to contact you about an upcoming appointment or to uplift laboratory results. We also use personal information to inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. Clinical history is used by physicians to better evaluate, diagnose and provide relevant treatment.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may provide personal information to other Physicians who would require said information to assist in diagnosing or establishing treatment which would benefit you. We may access, use or disclose your personal information for other reasons, including if we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law or legal process, protect and defend our rights or property, protect the personal safety of our staff and facility or members of the general public.