{"id":2855,"date":"2021-11-19T01:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasv.com.au\/?page_id=2855"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:50:38","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lasv.com.au\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"privacy policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2855\" class=\"elementor elementor-2855\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fdc7351 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"2fdc7351\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5585fb54\" data-id=\"5585fb54\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-467a4c08 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"467a4c08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-medium\">Privacy Policy<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14b66699 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14b66699\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-75b9467\" data-id=\"75b9467\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59ed1bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59ed1bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><u>LUNG AND SLEEP VICTORIA: PRIVACY POLICY<\/u><\/span><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: left;\">November 2021<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>This policy applies to all locations where consulting and\/or diagnostic services are provided by Lung and Sleep Victoria.<\/p><ol><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Introduction<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our practice is committed to best practice in relation to the management of information we collect. This practice has developed a policy to protect patient privacy in compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (\u2018the Privacy Act\u2019).\u00a0 Our policy is to inform you of:<\/p><ul><li>the kinds of information that we collect and hold, which, as a medical practice, is likely to be \u2018health information\u2019 for the purposes of the Privacy Act;<\/li><li>how we collect and hold personal information;<\/li><li>the purposes for which we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information;<\/li><li>how you may access your personal information and seek the correction of that information;<\/li><li>how you may complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with such a complaint;<\/li><li>whether we are likely to disclose personal information to overseas recipients;<\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"2\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> What kinds of personal information do we collect?<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The type of information we may collect and hold includes:<\/p><ul><li>Your name, address, date of birth, email and contact details<\/li><li>Medicare number, DVA number and other government identifiers, although we will not use these for the purposes of identifying you in our practice<\/li><li>Your Private Health Insurance details<\/li><li>Other health information about you, including:<ul><li>notes of your symptoms or diagnosis and the treatment given to you<\/li><li>your specialist reports and test results<\/li><li>your appointment and billing details<\/li><li>your prescriptions and other pharmaceutical purchases<\/li><li>your dental records<\/li><li>your genetic information<\/li><li>your healthcare identifier<\/li><li>any other information about your race, sexuality or religion, when collected by a health service provider.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"3\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> How do we collect and hold personal information?<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We will generally collect personal information:<\/p><ul><li>from you directly when you provide your details to us. This might be via a face to face discussion, telephone conversation, registration form or online form<\/li><li>from a person responsible for you<\/li><li>from third parties where the Privacy Act or other law allows it &#8211; this may include, but is not limited to: \u00a0other members of your treating team, diagnostic centres, specialists, hospitals, the My Health Record system<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>, electronic prescription services, Medicare, your health insurer, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme<\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"4\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Why do we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information?<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In general, we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:<\/p><ul><li>to provide health services to you<\/li><li>to communicate with you in relation to the health service being provided to you.<\/li><li>to comply with our legal obligations, including, but not limited to, mandatory notification of communicable diseases or mandatory reporting under applicable child protection legislation.<\/li><li>to help us manage our accounts and administrative services, including billing, arrangements with health funds, pursuing unpaid accounts, management of our ITC systems<\/li><li>for consultations with other doctors and allied health professional involved in your healthcare;<\/li><li>to obtain, analyse and discuss test results from diagnostic and pathology laboratories<\/li><li>\u00a0for identification and insurance claiming<\/li><li>\u00a0If you have a My Health Record, to upload your personal information to, and download your personal information from, the My Health Record system.<\/li><li>Information can also be disclosed through an electronic transfer of prescriptions service.<\/li><li>To liaise with your health fund, government and regulatory bodies such as Medicare, the Department of Veteran&#8217;s Affairs and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) (if you make a privacy complaint to the OAIC), as necessary.<\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"5\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> How can you access and correct your personal information?<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You have a right to seek access to, and correction of the personal information which we hold about you.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For details on how to access and correct your health record, please contact our practice as noted below under \u2018Contact Details\u2019. We will normally respond to your request within 30 days.<\/p><ol start=\"6\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> How do we hold your personal information?<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our staff are trained and required to respect and protect your privacy. We take reasonable steps to protect information held from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. This includes:<\/p><ul><li>Holding your information on an password-protected encrypted database<\/li><li>Access to the database is protected by user-specific passwords with access to such information on a \u2018need to know\u2019 basis<\/li><li>The database is stored on a local server which is protected by a robust firewall and can only be accessed by approved users via a Virtual Private Network (VPN)<\/li><li>All paper documents including but not limited to demographic information, results and correspondence are scanned into the electronic database and are then disposed of in a secure bin, the contents of which are collected and destroyed by an accredited company<\/li><li>Our staff sign confidentiality agreements during their induction into employment in our practice<\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"7\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Privacy related questions and complaints <\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you have any questions about privacy-related issues or wish to complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles or the handling of your personal information by us, you may lodge your complaint in writing to (see below for details). \u00a0We will normally respond to your request within 30 days.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may refer the matter to the OAIC:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Phone: <\/strong><\/span>1300 363 992<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Email: <\/strong><\/span>enquiries@oaic.gov.au<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Fax: <\/strong><\/span>+61 2 9284 9666<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Post: <\/strong><\/span>GPO Box 5218<br \/>Sydney NSW 2001<\/p><ol start=\"8\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Anonymity and pseudonyms<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Privacy Act provides that individuals must have the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym, when dealing with our practice, except in certain circumstances, such as where it is impracticable for us to deal with you if you have not identified yourself.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The provision of medical services and\/or the ability to claim reimbursement for such services through either Medicare or Private Health Insurance may be impacted by anonymity or the use of a pseudonym.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Any requests for anonymity or the use of a pseudonym should be directed to our practice as noted below under \u2018Contact details\u2019 and will be assessed on an individual basis.<\/p><ol start=\"9\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Overseas disclosure.<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We may disclose your personal information to the following overseas recipients:<\/p><ul><li>any practice or individual who assists us in providing services (such as where you have come from overseas and had your health record transferred from overseas, where you have treatment continuing from an overseas provider, or where you have moved overseas and transferred your health record overseas)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>overseas transcription services for the purposes of transcribing letters dictated by our doctors<\/li><li>anyone else to whom you authorise us to disclose it<\/li><\/ul><ol start=\"10\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Updates to this Policy<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This Policy will be reviewed from time to time to take account of new laws and technology, changes to our operations and other necessary developments. Updates will be publicised on the practice&#8217;s website.<\/p><ol start=\"11\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Privacy and websites<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When completing the online form on the \u2018Contact Us\u2019 page of the Lung and Sleep Victoria Website, the name and email address entered into the form will be transmitted to administrative staff at Lung and Sleep Victoria to facilitate a response to your query.<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Lung and Sleep Victoria website does not collect personal information through the use of website analytics or cookies<\/p><ol start=\"12\"><li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong> Contact details for privacy related issues<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ol><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Louise Lennard<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Practice Manager and Privacy Officer, Lung and Sleep Victoria<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">35 Summerhill Rd<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Footscray<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Victoria 3011<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Phone: (03) 9318 4377<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">privacy@lasv.com.au<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> See: <a href=\"https:\/\/myhealthrecord.gov.au\/internet\/mhr\/publishing.nsf\/content\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/myhealthrecord.gov.au\/internet\/mhr\/publishing.nsf\/content\/home<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy Policy LUNG AND SLEEP VICTORIA: PRIVACY POLICY November 2021 \u00a0 This policy applies to all locations where consulting and\/or diagnostic services are provided by Lung and Sleep Victoria. 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