Confidentiality


Your physician understands the importance of patient confidentiality and is committed to the protection of your personal health information.

All personal identification information is protected and stored on a secure server.

All information given via the physician consult form or in a conversation with any of our employees is held in complete confidence.

Our employees adhere to the strict standards for patient confidentiality set by the American Medical Association and the Health on the Net Foundation.

We do not share any of your personal information with any associated sites.

We will not release any personally identifying information to anyone unless mandated by federal or state laws. Aggregate statistical summaries may be released to third parties, but these statistics will contain no personally identifiable information.

Information Security:

Medfusion, Inc. provides the technical information security services for the Pinehurst Surgical website. When you submit your information to the Pinehurst Surgical website, that information is converted to a random code. This is called encryption. When the information arrives at its destination, the data is decoded and stored on a secure server.

There are two ways of knowing you are connected to a secure server.

A little closed padlock or unbroken key will appear on the bottom of your browser's window when you access a secure page.

The "http" at the beginning of the URL will change to "https" when you access secure pages.

Other ways we provide Internet security:

Email correspondence and notifications from the Pinehurst Surgical will not contain any medical information or indication of medical treatment. Our patients and physicians communicate health information through a secure server only. To consult with your physician about health matters, patients must register on their physician's website and communicate through our secure server. When your physician needs to correspond with you, an email will be sent notifying you to logon to the secure portion of our website and read the communication. The notification email contains no health information or any indication of your interaction with your physician.


Technical Issues Regarding Confidentiality

Medfusion, Inc. provides technical support and maintains all technical security for the secure areas of Pinehurst Surgical’s website.

Medfusion, Inc. uses a firewall to insure the security of all information submitted to our servers. A firewall prevents unnecessary exposure of our secure servers to the internet, and detects and wards off intrusion attempts. The firewall we use is an industry leader in reliability and performance.

We use "cookies" to store necessary information on your computer. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. They simply provide information about the features you have already selected without asking for your preferences each time you logon. To access some of the features on your physician's website you will need to enable cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may have changed your browser to prevent that.

If you have problems seeing pages, it means either: The option to receive cookies has been disabled in your browser, or

You have an older version of a browser that does not support cookies.

(While the Virtual Office will work with some earlier browsers, when cookies are enabled, we recommend that you use Version6 (or newer) of Microsoft Internet Explorer.)