Patient Privacy

Effective Date: 3rd June, 2024

 

You privacy is important to Dr Ryo Mizumoto. The Privacy Policy section describes the policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the service and the ways Dr Ryo Mizumoto uses that personal information in his practice. This section provides further information on the kinds of information we collect, how and why we collect them, and how we use this personal information. Our practice has developed a policy in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 to help protect patient privacy.

Types of Personal Information we collect

• Identifiable information such as your name, date of birth, contact details (phone and email) and address

• Medicare, DVA, and any other government issued identifiable information

Health information, which includes but not limited to: your clinical symptoms, signs and diagnosis; your other medical history including medical and past surgical history; your family history; any medications you take or have ever taken; any tests results such as blood tests and imaging tests; and any other information such as gender, race, sexuality if relevant to your health care.
 

Please note, although the Privacy Act allows individuals to use pseudonyms or the option not to identify themselves, our practice in general requires your full identification details as stated on government issued identification, for the purposes of delivering health care and billing with agencies such as your health insurer, Medicare, DVA, and other such organisations.

How we collect and hold personal information

There are various ways we collect personal information:

• During a health consultation in person, via phone or telehealth;

• Information that is submitted via this website by you, a person responsible for you, or your health care referrer;

• Other third parties such as other specialists, health insurance and medicare, or electronic health information services.

You may request at any time to remove any personal information, or seek a correction or obtain a record of personal information. Please provide a written request by using our contact form.

The use and disclosure of personal information

Your personal information is strictly used in providing you health care within Dr Ryo Mizumoto's scope of practice, and improving the services, availability and access to this website. Other uses may include:

• Communications with you, the person responsible for you, and/or your health care referrer, professional or other specialist in relation to your health care or service provided to you.

• Communications with health insurers, Medicare, DVA or other government or health agencies.

• Management of billing accounts and invoices statements.

• Legal requirements such as mandatory reporting of communicable disease or when such requests are mandated by a court of law or other legal proceedings or enforcement bodies.
• Cross-border or overseas disclosure: if your health information is located cross-border or overseas such as your health insurer information, health records, translational and transcription services, or any other organisations if required by law.

Personal information and data storage

Data is collected automatically on secure cloud and web servers when using this website.

Dr Ryo Mizumoto will exercise all necessary and reasonable precautions to prevent any loss, alteration or misuse of your personal information. Any data entered into this website has been secured by ©Wix Security Measures, with a dedicated security team to ensure technical and organisational security measures to protect data and assets in relation to this website. Further information on data security and handling by ©Wix can be found in this link: https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-security-measures-overview.

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Our practice staff are bound by confidentiality agreements. Any paper records are securely stored by industry standards, and are destroyed by shredding when required.

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We cannot guarantee the absolute prevention of loss or misuse of your personal information, whether in physical or electronic form.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy at any time in future. The new version will be posted on this website.

You are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy or Dr Mizumoto's use of your personal information, You can contact us by:

• Submitting our contact form; or

• Writing via post:

Dr Ryo Mizumoto

Caboolture Private Hospital

McKean Street

CABOOLTURE QLD 4510

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