Our office understands the importance of protecting information.
To help you understand how we are doing that, we have outlined
here how our office using and disclosing your information.
The 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 and to provide health care
To advise you of your 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
To communicate with other health treating providers,
including specialists and general Dentists who are the
referring Dentists and/or peripheral Dentists
To allow us to maintain communication and contact you to
distribute healthcare information and to book and confirm
appointments. This may include sending e-mail/text reminders
to book and confirm appointments
Electronic Records and Signatures: Our office uses secure
electronic medical and dental record systems to store your
personal health information. These systems meet privacy and
security standards required under Canadian law. Forms
completed online are treated the same as paper forms. A typed
name is considered your legal signature and confirms your
consent.
To allow us to efficiently follow-up for treatment, care and
billing
To complete/submit predeterminations and dental claims for
third party adjudication and payment; to provide further
information that your insurer may request to aid the
processing to predeterminations and claims
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 and records to the provisions of the Regulated
Health Professions Act
To comply with the agreements/undertakings entered into the
voluntary by the member with the Royal College or Dental
Surgeons of Ontario, including the delivery and/or review of
patients charts and records to the College in a timely fashion
or regulatory monitoring purposes
To permit potential purchasers, practise brokers or advisors
to conduct an audit in preparation for a practice sale
To deliver your charts and records to the Dentists insurance
carrier to enable the insurance company to access liability
and quantity damages, if any:
To prepare materials for the Health Professionals Appeal and
Review Board (HPARB)
To invoice for goods and services
To process credit card payments
To collect unpaid accounts
To assist this office to comply with all regulatory
requirements
To comply generally with the law
