Thrive Psychiatry and Wellness
Provider: Dr. Swati Ellendula, MD
Notice of Privacy Practices
This Notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can access this information. Please review it carefully.
Understanding Your Health Record/Information
Every time you visit Thrive Psychiatry and Wellness, a record of your visit is made. This record may include symptoms, examination and test results, diagnoses, and treatment plans. This information, referred to as your health or medical record, serves as a:
- Basis for planning your care and treatment
- Means of communication among health professionals
- Legal document describing the care you received
- Tool for education of health professionals
- Source for medical research
- Source of information for public health officials
- Basis for business decisions by Thrive Psychiatry and Wellness
Your Health Information Rights
Your health record is the physical property of Thrive Psychiatry and Wellness. The information it contains belongs to you. You have the right to:
- Request a restriction on certain uses and disclosures of your information
- Obtain a copy of the notice of information practices upon request
- Inspect and obtain a copy of your health record
- Request to amend your health record
- Obtain an accounting of disclosures of your health information
- Request communications of your health information by alternative means or at alternative location
- Revoke your authorization to use or disclose health information except to the extent that action has already been taken
Our Responsibilities
Thrive Psychiatry and Wellness is required to:
- Maintain the privacy of your health information
- Provide you with a notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to information we collect and maintain about you
- Abide by the terms of this notice
- Notify you if we are unable to agree to a requested restriction
- Accommodate reasonable requests you may have to communicate health information by alternative means or at alternative locations
- We reserve the right to change our practices and to make the new provisions effective for all protected health information we maintain. Should our information practices change, a revised notice will be available upon request.
- Revoke your authorization to use or disclose health information except to the extent that action has already been taken
We will not use or disclose your health information without your consent or authorization, except as described in this notice or otherwise required by law.
