Privacy
Frederick street family medicine privacy statement
The Physicians and Staff of Frederick Street Family Medicine value your privacy and confidentiality. As such, we are committed to uphold the law and ethics to safeguard your personal health information and ensure privacy and confidentiality.
We collect, use, and disclose your personal health information to:
- treat and care for you
- get payment for your treatment and care (from OHIP, WSIB, your private insurer or others)
- plan, administer and manage our internal operations
- conduct risk management and quality improvement activities
- teach
- conduct research
- compile statistics
- comply with legal and regulatory requirements and
- fulfill other purposes permitted or required by law.
Your request for care implies consent for our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information for purposes related to your care as noted above. All other purposes would require your express consent.
We may share your health information with other healthcare providers to continue to care for you. This includes healthcare providers at other organizations who can view your information through shared electronic systems/databases to continue to care for you.
You have the right at any time to withhold or withdraw your consent to disclose personal health information. You will be required to sign the appropriate form, which will be forwarded to your family physician.
Please note that any questions or concerns that you might have about your personal health information can be directed to our office privacy officer's Misty or Kayla.
Any requests for access or correction to your personal health information should be directed, in writing, to Dr. Jodie Wang.
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 privacy practices, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario at 416-326-3333 or 1-800-387-0073.