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Legal Responsibilities

We will disclose health information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law.  These activities generally include those related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting births or deaths, reporting  abuse or neglect; reporting reactions to medications; or to notify people of recalls of products they may be using.

 Inmates

If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, we may release information about you to the correctional institution or law enforcement official.  This release would be necessary (1) for the institution to provide you with health care; (2) to protect your ehalth and safety or the health and safety of others; or (3) for the safety and security of the correctional institution.


National Security and Intelligence Activities

We may release health information about your to authorized federal officer as authorized by law.


Health Oversight Activities

We may disclose information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law.  For example, these activities might include audits, investigations, licensure and inspections.


Fundraising

We may use your information to contact you to raise funds for UIHS.  In any fundraising material we mail to you, we will tell you how to ask to have your name taken off our mailing list.


Marketing

We may use your information to notify you of our new providers or health care programs or services we provide.

 

 

Organ and Tissue Donation

If you are an organ donor, we may release health information to organizations that handle organ procurement or organ, eye or tissue transplantation or to an organ donation bank, as necessary to facilitate organ or tissue donation and transplantation.


Military and Veterans

If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release health information about you as required by military command authorities.  We may also release health information about foreign military personnel to the appropriate foreign military authority.


Workers Compensation

We may release health information about you for workers' compensation or similar programs.  These programs provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.


Public Health Risks

We may disclose your information for public health activities such as assisting public health agencies to prevent or control disease, injury or disability.


Law Enforcement/Legal Proceedings

We may disclose health information about you in response to a subpoena, court or administrative order, to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; or in emergency circumstances to report a crime or determine the cause of death.