Security and Privacy of Health Information Sample Clauses

Security and Privacy of Health Information. A. This Section applies only to the extent that the Contractor receives any protected health information ("PHI"), as referenced in paragraph B below, or any alcohol and drug abuse records (as defined in IC 16-18- 2-12), health records (as defined in IC 16-18-2-168), or mental health records (as defined in IC 16-18-2-226), concerning any individual, in connection with performance of any services under this Contract. Any records included in the above definitions in IC 16-18-2 are referred to herein as "health records."
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. The Contractor agrees to comply with all requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) in all activities related to this Contract, to maintain compliance throughout the life of this Contract, to operate any systems used to fulfill the requirements of this Contract in full compliance with HIPAA and to take no action which adversely affects the State’s HIPAA compliance The parties acknowledge that the Department of Health and Human Services has issued the Final Rule, as amended from time to time, on the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, as required by HIPAA. To the extent required by the provisions of HIPAA and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Contractor covenants that it will appropriately safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI), as defined by the regulations, which is made available to or obtained by the Contractor in the course of its work under this Contract. The Contractor agrees to comply with applicable requirements of law relating to PHI with respect to any task or other activity it performs for the State as required by the final regulations.
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. A. This Section applies only to the extent that the Contractor receives any protected health information ("PHI"), as referenced in paragraph C below, or any alcohol and drug abuse records (as defined in IC 16-18-2-12), health records (as defined in IC 16-18-2-168), or mental health records (as defined in IC 16-18-2-226), concerning any individual, in connection with performance of any services under this Contract. Any records included in the above definitions in IC 16-18-2 are referred to herein as "health records." B. The Contractor agrees to comply with all requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") in all activities related to this Contract, to maintain compliance throughout the life of this Contract, to operate any systems used to fulfill the requirements of this Contract in full compliance with HIPAA and to take no action which adversely affects the State’s HIPAA compliance. C. The parties acknowledge that the United States Department of Health and Human Services has issued the Final Rule, as amended from time to time, on the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, as required by HIPAA. To the extent required by the provisions of HIPAA and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Contractor covenants that it will appropriately safeguard PHI, as defined by the regulations, which is made available to or obtained by the Contractor in the course of its work under this Contract. D. The Contractor agrees to comply with applicable requirements of law relating to PHI with respect to any task or other activity it performs for the State as required by the final regulations. In particular, the Contractor will do the following: (1) Not use or further disclose PHI or health records, other than as permitted or required by this Contract or by applicable law; (2) Establish appropriate safeguards to prevent use or disclosure of PHI or health records, other than as provided by this Contract or by applicable law; (3) Mitigate, to the extent practicable, any harmful effect that is known to the Contractor to have been caused by an improper or unauthorized disclosure of PHI or health records; (4) Report to the State any use or disclosure by the Contractor, its agents, employees, subcontractors or third parties, of PHI or health records obtained by the Contractor in connection with services provided under this Contract, in a manner not authorized by this Contract or by applicable law, whenever the ...
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. The Contractor agrees to comply with all requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), Privacy Regulations that took effect April 14, 2003, and Security Regulations that took effect on April 20, 2005, in all activities related to the contract, to maintain compliance throughout the life of the contract, to operate any systems used to fulfill the requirements of this contract in full compliance with HIPAA and to take no action which adversely affects the State's HIPAA compliance. The parties acknowledge that the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has issued the Final Rules, as amended from time to time on the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information and on the Standards for Security of Individually Identifiable Health Information, as required by the Administrative Simplification Section of HIPAA. The parties acknowledge that the Office is Covered Entity within the meaning of HIPAA. To the extent required by the provisions of HIPAA and regulations promulgated thereunder, the Contractor assures that it will appropriately safeguard Protected Health Information (PHI), as defined by the regulations, which is made available to or obtained by the Contractor in the course of its work under the contract. The Contractor agrees to comply with all applicable requirements of law relating to PHI with respect to any task or other activity it performs for the Office including, as required by the final Privacy and Security regulations: A. Contractor may use and disclose PHI for the following purposes: (a) to perform the services described in this Contract; (b) the proper management and administration of Contractor; (c) to carry out the legal responsibilities of Contractor; (d) as required by law; or (e) to report violations of law to appropriate Federal and State authorities, consistent with 42 CFR § 164.502(j)(l). If Contractor discloses PHI for a purpose related to (b) or (c) in the foregoing sentence, Contractor shall obtain reasonable assurances from the person to whom the information is disclosed that it will remain confidential and used or further disclosed only as required by law or for the purpose for which it was disclosed to the person, and require the person to notify Contractor of any instances of which it is aware in which the confidentiality of the information has been breached. B. Implementing administrative, physical and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately p...
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. The Contractor agrees to comply with all requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) in all activities related to this Contract, to maintain compliance throughout the life of this Contract, to operate any systems used to fulfill the requirements of this Contract in full compliance with HIPAA and to take no action which adversely affects the State’s HIPAA compliance.
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. If any final regulation or body of regulations relating to the administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“Final HIPAA Regulations”), or any amendment or judicial or administrative interpretation of the Final HIPAA Regulations, prohibits, restricts, limits or materially and adversely affects either party’s rights or obligations hereunder, the Parties shall negotiate, in good faith, reasonable revisions to this Agreement for Services. The purpose of the negotiations shall be to revise the Agreement for Services so that the affected party can comply and/or act in accordance with such Final HIPAA Regulations, or amendment or judicial or administrative interpretation thereof and avoid or mitigate such prohibition, restriction, limitation or material and adverse effect. If the Parties fail to agree to such revisions within forty-five (45) days after written notice from the affected Party requesting negotiations under this paragraph, this Agreement for Services shall terminate. If so terminated Quest shall return all protected health information received from, created or received by Quest on behalf of the State. Quest shall retain no copies of such information in any form.
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. A. Through this MOU the parties wish to acknowledge their mutual obligations arising under laws and regulations of the following:
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Security and Privacy of Health Information. If any final regulation or body of regulations relating to the administrative simplification provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“Final HIPAA Regulations”), or any amendment or judicial or administrative interpretation of the Final HIPAA Regulations prohibits, restricts, limits or materially and adversely affects either party’s right or obligations hereunder, the parties shall negotiate, in good faith, reasonable revisions to this Contract. The purpose of the negotiations shall be to revise the Contract so that the affected party can comply and/or act in accordance with such Final HIPAA Regulations, or amendment or judicial or administrative interpretation thereof and avoid or mitigate such prohibition, restriction, limitation or material and adverse effect. If the parties fail to agree to such revisions within forty-five (45) days after written notice from the affected party requesting negotiations under this paragraph, this Contract shall terminate. If so terminated the Contractor shall return all protected health information received from, created or received by the Contractor on behalf of the State. The Contractor shall retain no copies of such information in any form.
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Related to Security and Privacy of Health Information

  • Data Protection and Privacy: Protected Health Information Party shall maintain the privacy and security of all individually identifiable health information acquired by or provided to it as a part of the performance of this Agreement. Party shall follow federal and state law relating to privacy and security of individually identifiable health information as applicable, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and its federal regulations.

  • Health Information Subject to all applicable privacy laws, the member irrevocably authorises any doctor or other person who may have, or may acquire, any information concerning their health to disclose such information to Specialty Emergency Services, and that this authority shall remain in force for a period of not less than 12 (twelve) months following the expiry date of this Membership Agreement. 8.1 If deemed necessary by Specialty Emergency Services, for both the correct treatment of the member and to comply with the terms and conditions, the Member allows Specialty Emergency Services to screen for narcotics and any/all forms of mind-altering substances by blood test undertaken by a licensed doctor in a licensed medical facility.

  • Protected Health Information “Protected Health Information” shall have the same meaning as the term “protected health information” in Section 160.103 and is limited to the information created or received by Contractor from or on behalf of County.

  • ACCESS TO PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION 7.1 To the extent Covered Entity determines that Protected Health Information is maintained by Business Associate or its agents or Subcontractors in a Designated Record Set, Business Associate shall, within two (2) business days after receipt of a request from Covered Entity, make the Protected Health Information specified by Covered Entity available to the Individual(s) identified by Covered Entity as being entitled to access and shall provide such Individuals(s) or other person(s) designated by Covered Entity with a copy the specified Protected Health Information, in order for Covered Entity to meet the requirements of 45 C.F.R. § 164.524. 7.2 If any Individual requests access to Protected Health Information directly from Business Associate or its agents or Subcontractors, Business Associate shall notify Covered Entity in writing within two (2) days of the receipt of the request. Whether access shall be provided or denied shall be determined by Covered Entity. 7.3 To the extent that Business Associate maintains Protected Health Information that is subject to access as set forth above in one or more Designated Record Sets electronically and if the Individual requests an electronic copy of such information, Business Associate shall provide the Individual with access to the Protected Health Information in the electronic form and format requested by the Individual, if it is readily producible in such form and format; or, if not, in a readable electronic form and format as agreed to by Covered Entity and the Individual.

  • Third-Party Information; Privacy or Data Protection Laws Each Party acknowledges that it and its respective Subsidiaries may presently have and, after the Effective Time, may gain access to or possession of confidential or proprietary Information of, or personal Information relating to, Third Parties: (i) that was received under confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements entered into between such Third Parties, on the one hand, and the other Party or the other Party’s Subsidiaries, on the other hand, prior to the Effective Time or (ii) that, as between the two parties, was originally collected by the other Party or the other Party’s Subsidiaries and that may be subject to and protected by privacy, data protection or other applicable Laws. Each Party agrees that it shall hold, protect and use, and shall cause its Subsidiaries and its and their respective Representatives to hold, protect and use, in strict confidence the confidential and proprietary Information of, or personal Information relating to, Third Parties in accordance with privacy, data protection or other applicable Laws and the terms of any agreements that were either entered into before the Effective Time or affirmative commitments or representations that were made before the Effective Time by, between or among the other Party or the other Party’s Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and such Third Parties, on the other hand.

  • Privacy of Customer Information Company Customer Information in the possession of the Agent, other than information independently obtained by the Agent and not derived in any manner from or using information obtained under or in connection with this Agreement, is and shall remain confidential and proprietary information of the Companies. Except in accordance with this Section 10.10, the Agent shall not use any Company Customer Information for any purpose, including the marketing of products or services to, or the solicitation of business from, Customers, or disclose any Company Customer Information to any Person, including any of the Agent’s employees, agents or contractors or any third party not affiliated with the Agent. The Agent may use or disclose Company Customer Information only to the extent necessary (i) for examination and audit of the Agent’s activities, books and records by the Agent’s regulatory authorities, (ii) to protect or exercise the Agent’s, the Custodian’s and the Lenders’ rights and privileges or (iii) to carry out the Agent’s, the Custodian’s and the Lenders’ express obligations under this Agreement and the other Facilities Papers (including providing Company Customer Information to Approved Investors), and for no other purpose; provided that the Agent may also use and disclose the Company Customer Information as expressly permitted by the relevant Company in writing, to the extent that such express permission is in accordance with the Privacy Requirements. The Agent shall take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that each Person to which the Agent intends to disclose Company Customer Information, before any such disclosure of information, agrees to keep confidential any such Company Customer Information and to use or disclose such Company Customer Information only to the extent necessary to protect or exercise the Agent’s, the Custodian’s and the Lenders’ rights and privileges, or to carry out the Agent’s, the Custodian’s and the Lenders’ express obligations, under this Agreement and the other Facilities Papers (including providing Company Customer Information to Approved Investors). The Agent agrees to maintain an Information Security Program and to assess, manage and control risks relating to the security and confidentiality of Company Customer Information pursuant to such program in the same manner as the Agent does so in respect of their own customers’ information, and shall implement the standards relating to such risks in the manner set forth in the Interagency Guidelines Establishing Standards for Safeguarding Company Customer Information set forth in 12 CFR Parts 30, 208, 211, 225, 263, 308, 364, 568 and 570. Without limiting the scope of the foregoing sentence, the Agent shall use at least the same physical and other security measures to protect all Company Customer Information in the Agent’s possession or control as the Agent uses for their own customers’ confidential and proprietary information.

  • Electronic Protected Health Information “Electronic Protected Health Information” means individually identifiable health information that is transmitted by or maintained in electronic media.

  • Amendment of Protected Health Information 8.1 To the extent Covered Entity determines that any Protected Health Information is maintained by Business Associate or its agents or Subcontractors in a Designated Record Set, Business Associate shall, within ten (10) business days after receipt of a written request from Covered Entity, make any amendments to such Protected Health Information that are requested by Covered Entity, in order for Covered Entity to meet the requirements of 45 C.F.R. § 164.526. 8.2 If any Individual requests an amendment to Protected Health Information directly from Business Associate or its agents or Subcontractors, Business Associate shall notify Covered Entity in writing within five (5) days of the receipt of the request. Whether an amendment shall be granted or denied shall be determined by Covered Entity.

  • Privacy Act If performance involves design, development or operation of a system of records on individuals, this Agreement incorporates by reference FAR 52.224-1 Privacy Act Notification (Apr 1984) and FAR 52.224-2 Privacy Act (Apr 1984).

  • Customer Information CPNI of a Customer and any other non-public, individually identifiable information about a Customer or the purchase by a Customer of the services or products of a Party.

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