Common use of Permitted Uses of the data Clause in Contracts

Permitted Uses of the data. i) Hospital data as defined in the Agreements with the Ohio Department of Health, is for use in connection with public health surveillance & investigation purposes and practice as permitted by and pursuant to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and for no other purpose. ii) Except as described in section a.iii, below, Health Monitoring Systems may only provide access to Hospital Data to the Authorized Users designated by the Ohio Department of Health in the form of summaries by rates and counts, or time trended or spatially aggregated summaries, and only when combined with data of other health systems participating in the Project. iii) When an alert is generated by the automatic detection algorithms of EpiCenter, or when manual inspection of aggregate data viewed through the EpiCenter interface identifies a cluster of patients with a higher than expected rate of symptoms, the Ohio Health Department designated authorized users may have access through the EpiCenter interface to the name of facility or hospital, gender, age, home zip code, work zip code, and chief complaint for each patient in the suspicious cluster for public health investigation purposes as permitted by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). iv) Each Party shall use the Confidential Information of the other Parties only for the purpose of performing the public health surveillance and investigation functions of the Project as permitted by HIPAA and for no other purposes whatsoever. v) Each Party shall strictly limit access to the relevant portions of the Confidential Information of the other Parties to such of its employees as delineated herein who have a need to know such portions of the Confidential Information regarding the Project.