contact you for fundraising efforts, you have the right to opt out of fundraising communications, as described in every fundraising communication.
‣ Certain Marketing Activities. UAB Health System may use medical information about you to forward promotional gifts of nominal value, to communicate with you about services offered by UAB Health System, to communicate with you about case management and care coordination, and to communicate with you about treatment alternatives. We do not sell your health information to any third party for their marketing activities unless you sign an authorization allowing us to do this.
‣ UAB Health System Directory. We may include certain limited information about you in the UAB Health System directories while you are a patient at UAB Health System, unless you request otherwise. This information may include your name, location in UAB Health System, your general condition( e. g., fair, stable, etc.), and your religious affiliation. The directory information, except for your religious affiliation, may also be released to people who ask for you by name. This information and your religious affiliation may be given to a member of the clergy, such as a priest or rabbi, even if they don’ t ask for you by name. This is so your family, friends, and clergy can visit you and generally know how you are doing.
‣ Business Associates. There are some services provided in UAB Health System through contracts with business associates. Examples include a copy service we use when making copies of your health record, consultants, accountants, lawyers, medical transcriptionists, and third-party billing companies. When these services are contracted, we may disclose your health information to our business associate so that they can perform the job we’ ve asked them to do. To protect your health information, however, we require the business associate to appropriately safeguard your information.
‣ As Required By Law. We will disclose medical information about you when required to do so by federal, state, or local law.
‣ Public Health Activities. We may disclose medical information about you to public health or legal authorities charged with preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability. For example, we are required to report the existence of a communicable disease, such as tuberculosis, to the Alabama Department of Public Health to protect the health and well-being of the general public. We may disclose medical information about you to individuals exposed to a communicable disease or otherwise at risk for spreading the disease. We may disclose medical information to an employer if the employer requires the healthcare services to determine whether you suffered a work-related injury.
‣ Food and Drug Administration( FDA). We may disclose to the FDA and to manufacturers health information relative to adverse events with respect to food, supplements, product and product defects, or post-marketing surveillance information to enable product recalls, repairs, or replacement.
‣ Victims of Abuse, Neglect, or Domestic Violence. We are required to report child, elder, and domestic abuse or neglect to the State of Alabama.
‣ Health Oversight Activities. We may disclose medical information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. These oversight activities include, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure. These activities are necessary for the government to monitor the health care system, government programs, and compliance with civil rights laws.
‣ Lawsuits and Disputes. If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose medical information about you in response to a court or administrative order. We may also disclose medical information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if efforts have been made to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested. We may disclose medical information for judicial or administrative proceedings, as required by law.
‣ Law Enforcement. We may release medical information for law enforcement purposes as required by law, in response to a valid subpoena, for identification and location of fugitives, witnesses, or missing persons, for suspected victims of crime, for deaths that may have resulted from criminal conduct, and for suspected crimes on the premises. uabmedicine. org / uab-home-infusion-therapy 29