The Health Information Privacy Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule provides federal protections for individually identifiable health information held by covered entities and their business associates and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of health information needed for patient care and other important purposes.
Certain of the SightCall Services will permit Customer to comply with HIPAA/HITECH in connection with such use. As a condition of any use of the SightCall Services under HIPAA/HITECH, SightCall will enter into a separate business associate agreement with the Customer, and in such case SightCall will comply with all business associate obligations under HIPAA/HITECH. In such event, the pricing for the applicable SightCall Services will be modified in accordance with SightCall’s pricing policies then in effect (as such may be amended from time to time)