Our practice values the privacy and security of your personal health information and uses standards-compliant secure messaging. As a patient of our medical practice, we require you to provide us with your personal details and a full medical history, so that we may properly assess, diagnose and treat illnesses and medical conditions to ensure we are proactive in your healthcare. To enable ongoing care, and in keeping with the privacy act 1988, and Australian privacy principles, our aim is to provide you with sufficient information about how Your personal information may be used or just closed and record your consent or restrictions to this consent.
Your personal information will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected, or as otherwise permitted by law, and we respect your right to determine how your information is used or disclosed.
By signing below, you (as a patient/parent/guardian) are consenting to the collection of your personal information, and that it may be used to describe close by the practice for the following purposes:
1. Administrative purposes in running our practice.
2. Billing purposes, including compliance with Medicare requirements.
3. Follow-up calls, appointment reminder/recall notices via SMS, letter, or email for treatment, result, actions, and preventative healthcare.
4. Disclosure to others involved in your healthcare, including treating doctors and specialist outside this medical practice. This may occur through the referral to other doctors, or for medical tests, and in the reports or results return to us following the referrals.
5. Accreditation and quality assurance activities to improve individual and community health care and practice management.
6. For legal related disclosure, as required by a court of law.
7. For the purposes of research, only where de-identified information is used.
8. To our medical students and staff to participate a medical training/teaching, using only de-identified information.
9. To comply with any legislative or regulatory requirements eg. notifiable diseases.
10. For use when seeking treatment by other doctors in this practice.
11. Ad hoc newsletters my email for the purpose of sharing generic health related information.
At all times, we are required to ensure your details are treated with the upmost confidentiality. Your records are very important, and we will take all the steps necessary to ensure they remain confidential. Please complete the form below if you understand and agree to the following statement in relation to use, collection, privacy disclosure of your patient information.
Our doctors and staff collect information from patients primarily to provide proper care and treatment. We have a legal and ethical duty to protect patient information. Patient information may have to be disclosed to other doctors, nurses, therapists, and medical technicians so that health care is not compromised.
The doctor in this practice is a member of various medical and professional bodies. These organisations provide valuable services to their members. They require their members to provide information in relation to their medical practice, which may include patient information.