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NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
By participating in the Screening Programs, participants signify their acceptance of the terms of Impact Health's Notice of Privacy Practices. However, if you do not agree to the terms of this Notice, you may not participate in a Screening Program.
In order to participate in an Impact Health Screening Program, participants must complete a personal health questionnaire consisting of a number of questions about personal and family medical history related to heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other common diseases. We will use this information during the clinical screening to help assess the risk for heart disease. After the screening, the responses to the personal health questionnaire will be used by Impact Health for the following: conducting market research to improve the programs, products and services offered by Impact Health; to advance the understanding of pathophysiology and therapeutic approaches to treating disease; and to provide participants with information about common health issues, such as high cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure and products to treat those conditions, which may be delivered to participants by Impact Health or its business partners (as described below in the section "Sharing of Information").
Unless required by law, Impact Health will not sell or disclose personally
identifiable health information to any third party without permission. In certain
instances, Impact Health's business partners, such as pharmaceutical companies,
may sponsor Screening Programs administered by Impact Health. In such cases,
subject to the participant's consent, Impact Health may provide personally
identifiable health information to its business partners so that they may provide
information about common health issue and products to treat certain common
health conditions. De-identified information provided to or collected by Impact
Health, that is, information that has been stripped of all data elements that
personally identify participants or could be reasonably used to identify participants,
may be stored, used or sold by Impact Health for any business-related purpose.
Participants may choose not to complete the healthcare questionnaire. Further, if they complete the questionnaire and later change their mind and withdraw their consent, we will block any further release of personally identifiable health information about them, and their family, that can be used to identify or contact them .
Unless participants contact Impact Health to withdraw their consent, the healthcare questionnaire information may be stored and used internally by Impact Health indefinitely.
This Notice of Privacy Practices is part of Impact Health's commitment to protect the privacy of participants in the Screening Programs. This Notice may be amended from time to time as we add programs and services and as laws change; however, we display a version number and date on the Notice so that you will know when there has been a change.
Impact Health wants all personal health information to remain as secure as reasonably possible. Maintaining a secure system is in the best interests of our customers, program participants and partners. Therefore, Impact Health stores all personally identifiable health data using industry standard physical, technical and administrative safeguards to secure data against foreseeable risks, such as unauthorized use, access, disclosure, destruction and modification. In addition, only authorized Impact Health employees are permitted to access personal health information, and such employees are subject to Impact Health's code of conduct with respect to such information. Any Impact Health employee who intentionally violates our Privacy Policy is subject to disciplinary action, including termination. After a screening event, all healthcare questionnaire information will be stored in locked files and on separate Impact Health computer servers, and only Impact Health and its successors will have access to the information.
We have provided this Notice to communicate the specifics of our commitment to privacy. In addition, Impact Health will address any complaints or questions that our program participants may have regarding the policies contained in this Notice or their implementation. If you have a complaint or question about this Notice, please call 1-800-470-4439 or visit www.impacthealth.com. Alternatively,
you can send a letter to the following address:
Privacy Practices
ImpactHealth.com, Inc. 1040 First Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19460 Impact Health will address all privacy concerns in a prompt and equitable manner. POL12291B Effective Date: 08/18/03 |
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