West Brunswick Clinic

February 23 2012

Privacy Policy 1

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The West Brunswick Clinic takes its obligations under the Victorian Health Records Act 2001 and the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 seriously and would like to take all reasonable steps in order to comply and protect the privacy of the personal information that we hold. This policy sets out how we intend to so.

Collection of information

The West Brunswick Clinic collects and holds personal health information about you. The West Brunswick Clinic collects information from you so that we may properly assess, diagnose, treat and be proactive in your health care needs. All members of the professional team involved in your care will have access to your personal information. This means we may use and disclose the information you provide in the following ways:

Disclosure to others involved in your health care, including treating doctors, pathology services, radiology services and other specialists outside this medical practice. This may occur through referral to other doctors, or for medical tests and in the reports or results returned to us following the referrals.
Disclosure to enable recording on medical registers (example the diabetes register or pap smear register).
Administrative purposes in running our medical practice, including our insurer or medical indemnity provider, and quality assurance and accreditation bodies.
Billing purposes, including providing information to your health insurance fund, the Health Insurance Commission (Medicare) and other organisation responsible for the financial aspects of your care.
Conducting research.
Assisting with training and education of other health professionals.

In most cases we will obtain the information directly from you or your treating Doctors.

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