Privacy of your personal information is an important part of our office protocol to provide you with quality dental care. We understand the importance of protecting your personal information. We are faithful in collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information responsibly. We also try to be as open and clear as possible about the way we handle your personal information. It is important to us to provide this service to our patients. In this office, Dr. Yi Jin acts as the Privacy Information Officer. All staff members who come in contact with your personal information are aware of the sensitive nature of the information that you have disclosed to us. They are all trained in the appropriate uses and protection of your information.
Attached to this consent form, we have outlined what our office is doing to ensure that:
- Only the necessary information is collected about you
- We only share your information with your consent
- Storage, retention, and destruction of your personal information complies with existing legislation and privacy protection protocols
- Our privacy protocols comply with privacy legislation, stands of our regulatory body, the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and the Federal law.
Please be assured that every staff personnel in our office is committed to ensuring that you receive thebest quality dental care.
How Our Office Collects, Uses, and Discloses Patients' Personal Information
Our office understands the importance of protecting your personal information. To help you understand how we are doing that, we have outlined here how our office is using and disclosing, as necessary, your information.
This office will collect, use, and disclose information about you for the following purposes:
- To deliver safe and efficient patient care
- To identify and to ensure continuous high quality service
- To assess your health needs
- To provide safe health care
- To advise you of treatment options
- To enable us to contact you
- To establish and maintain communication with you
- To offer and provide treatment, care, and services in relationship to the oral and maxillofacial complex and dental care generally.
- To communicate with other treating health-care providers, including physicians, specialists, and general dentists who are the referring dentists and/or peripheral dentists
- To allow us to maintain communication and contact with you to distribute health-care information and to book and confirm appointments
- To allow us to efficiently follow-up for treatment, care, and billing
- To complete and submit dental claims for third-party adjudication and payment
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including the delivery of patients' charts and records to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario in a timely fashion, when required, according to the provisions of the Regulated Health Professions Act
- To comply with agreements/undertakings entered into voluntarily by the member with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, including the delivery and/or review of patients' charts and records to the College in a timely fashion for regulatory and monitoring purposes
- To allow consultants or advisors to assist in beneficial office management processes
- To deliver your charts and records to the Centre's benefits managers to assess liability and eligibility and to our satellite dental offices
- To prepare materials for the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB)
- To invoice for goods and services
- To process payments
- To assist this office to comply with all regulatory requirements
- To comply generally with the law
By signing the consent section of this Patient Consent Form, you have agreed that you have given your informed consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal information for the purposes that are listed. If a new purpose arises for the use and/or disclosure of your personal information, we will seek your approval in advance. Your information may be accessed by regulatory authorities under the terms of the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) for the purposes of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario fulfilling its mandate under the RHPA. Our office will not, under any conditions, supply anyone with your confidential medical history. In the event this kind of request is made, we will forward the information directly to you for review and for your specific consent. When unusual requests are received, we will contact you for permission to release such information. We may also advise you if such a lease is inappropriate. You may withdraw your consent for use or disclosure of your personal information, and we will explain the outcomes of that decision and the process.
Patient Consent
I have reviewed the above information that explains how the office of Dr. Yi Jin will use my personal information and the steps the office is taking to protect my information. I know that the office has a Privacy Code, and that a copy of the Code can be provided to me upon my request. I agree that Dr. Yi Jincan collect, use, and disclose personal information about: