PRIVACY POLICY
Our office understands the importance of protecting your personal health information. To help you understand how we are doing that, we have outlined below how our office is collecting, using and disclosing your personal health information.
This office will collect, use and disclose information about you for the following purposes:
- to deliver safe and efficient patient care
- to identify and to ensure continuous high quality service
- to assess your health needs
- to provide health care
- to advise you of treatment options
- to enable us to contact you
- to establish and maintain communication with you
- to offer and provide treatment, care and services in relationship to the oral and maxillofacial complex and dental care generally
- to communicate with other treating health care providers, including specialists and general dentists who are the referring dentists and/or peripheral dentists
- to allow us to maintain communication and contact with you to distribute health care information and to book and confirm appointments
- to allow us to efficiently follow-up for treatment, care and billing
- for teaching and demonstrating purposes on an anonymous basis
- to complete and submit dental claims for third party adjudication and payment
- to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including the delivery of patients’ charts and records to the
- Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario in a timely fashion, when required, according to the provisions of the
- Regulated Health Professions Act
- to comply with agreements/undertakings entered into voluntarily by the member with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, including the delivery and/or review of patients’ charts and records to the College in a timely fashion for regulatory and monitoring purposes
- to permit potential purchasers, practice brokers or advisers to evaluate the dental practice
- to allow potential purchasers, practice brokers or advisers to conduct an audit in preparation for a practice sale
- to deliver your charts and records to the dentist’s insurance carrier to enable the insurance company to assess liability and quantify damages, if any
- to prepare materials for the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (HPARB)
- to invoice for goods and services
- to process credit card payments
- to collect unpaid accounts and report unpaid accounts to national and regional credit bureaus
- to assist this office to comply with all regulatory requirements
- to comply generally with the law
Please note that any questions or concerns that you might have about your personal health information can be directed to our contact person: Dr Tudor Codreanu. He can be reached at: Coventry Dental Care, 684 Ontario St, Unit #6, Stratford, ON, N5A 3J7, P: 519-305-9100, E: info@coventrydentalcare.ca
By signing the consent section of this Patient Consent Form, you have agreed that you have given your informed consent to the collection, use and/or disclosure of your personal health information for the purposes that are listed. If a new purpose arises for the use and/or disclosure of your personal health information, we will seek your approval in advance.
Your personal health information may be accessed by regulatory authorities under the terms of the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) for the purposes of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario fulfilling its mandate under the RHPA.
You may withdraw your consent for use or disclosure of your personal health information at any time.
Any requests for access or correction to your personal health information should be directed, in writing, to Dr Tudor Codreanu. If you are dissatisfied with the manner in which we have addressed your requests for access or correction to your personal health information or if you have general concerns about our privacy practices, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Thank you for your support and understanding in helping our office comply with all regulatory requirements and generally with the law.
PINTEREST PRIVACY POLICY
As our valued customer, we want to offer you as many options as possible, which is why we’re introducing Pinterest to you. Remember, we’ll never sell your information so you are able to stay protected with us. For some overall information about Pinterest, you need to make sure to sign up to use the products. Make sure to follow all of the guidelines when it comes to using Pinterest (according to Pinterest’s privacy policy) and connecting it with our dental office. Keep in mind, Pinterest is a worldwide service, and you have privacy protections in place to ensure your safety.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
Our office policies respect Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation. We use electronic messages (emails, telephone texts, etc) to inform you of any information pertaining to your file (i.e. upcoming appointment reminders, general messages, newsletters, payment reminders, marketing etc). If at any time you wish to withdraw consent, you may do so by contacting us at 519-305-9100 or info@coventrydentalcare.ca