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Privacy Policy

The Koshish Hospital respects the rights of the patients and seeks full confidentiality of patient’s personal as well as health information. This policy explains how the information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected and this is expected to justify the people’s trust in the healthcare services offered by our institution.

Our Commitment  Privacy

It has always been our responsibility to protect your privacy. In the ordinary course of business, we protect and safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, including personally identifiable information. Moreover, we follow and adhere to the laws, rules and standards in place in the market, including the provisions and rules laid under the HIPAA legislation and its amendment.

Information Collection

Your information is obtained from you in form of direct interaction or interactions via our website, phone or in person at the facilities. This information may include name, address, telephone number, email, birthdate, medical history, treatments administered, details of health insurance coverage as well as other health information. The site may also gather certain information through cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience with the site.

Use of Information

We use your information for providing medical treatments, medical services, invoices for the services offered, filing of insurance claims, improving services and facilities provided to you, replying to your questions, sending newsletters to your emails, updating you with the latest information about us, and others with your consent. But in one way or the other, your information may be used to protect health information under the law or for certain other purposes as allowed by the law.

 
 
Disclosure of Information

If you grant permission, we will also share your information begin with, we obtain your consent before sharing information with authorized healthcare providers and partners, insurance providers, governmental institutions and family representatives or interested delegates. Such information may also be selected for disclosure for research, approved by the Institutional Review Committee(IRC).Let us take your privacy seriously.To ensure the security of your information, we employ several measures like encryption, firewalls, access controls, internal controls security reviews, and secure email communications.

Right of the patients

It is your right as a patient to have access to your health records upon request and copies of such records made, request for amendments to the records, request for limits to be placed on the use of information and ask for other means of sending concerns and questions. Other than this, you can make a complaint to our Privacy Officer or to the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Website Terms

We do not claim that your personal data will not be stored or that using the site is your choice and involves no risks. Appointment-making and finalizing internet-based payment systems are also at your disposal.

Changes to this Policy

We might modify this statement from time to time at our discretion.

Acceptance

Our services and/or website use entails that you have read this policy and understood it and accept to be bound to the provisions of this policy.