Mairehau Medical Centre values your privacy. We are committed to meeting our obligations under the Health Information Privacy Code. To ensure that we meet our obligations we have:
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- trained our staff in the Health Information Privacy Code
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- developed a privacy policy for our practice
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- appointed a privacy officer. Please contact Liz, our privacy officer, if you have any concerns.
For further information you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on 0800 803 909 or visit the website www.privacy.org.nz
Please note that this practice is contributing to, and accessing healthcare information from HealthOne.
HealthOne is a South Island based secure electronic record that allows registered healthcare providers directly involved in your healthcare, to quickly access information such as your test results, allergies, medications, GP summaries and hospital information.
HealthOne strictly adheres to the principles of the Privacy Act 2020 as well as the Rules set out in the Health Information Privacy Code 2020.
Access is only possible via an approved highly secure healthcare information network which is regularly audited and tested.
Privacy auditing is used to check that only those directly involved in your care are accessing your information.
To find out more about HealthOne please click here.
Please note that you are entitled to restrict the sharing of your healthcare records by contacting 0508 837 872 or emailing HealthOne.privacy@pegasus.health.nz
