Privacy Policy

Inpatient Management, Inc. and its physicians and employees (collectively refereed to herein as “IMI”) are committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our web site located at www.inpatient.com (the “Web Site”), and we recognize your need for appropriate protection and management of the personally identifiable information you share with us, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and possibly other information, depending on the services you access.  This Web Site Privacy Policy will help you understand what information is collected when you visit our Web Site and how that information will be used.  If we adjust this policy at any time in the future, we will post those changes here.  Therefore, you should check back from time to time. 
Note that this Web Site Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy of your medical information.  Rather, such information is covered under IMI’s Notice of Privacy Practices.  For more information regarding such notice, see the section titled “Medical Information” below. 

Personally Identifiable Information

You may visit our Web Site without telling us anything about yourself or revealing any personally identifiable information.  However, once you give IMI your personally identifiable information, you are no longer anonymous to us.  When visiting the IMI Web Site, you may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information, depending on the services you access.  Some information is required, but other information is optional and may be given at your discretion.  The personally identifiable information you provide will be kept private and will not be disclosed by IMI to third parties, unless IMI, acting under a good faith belief, believes that such action is necessary to:

Computer and Session Information

IMI may utilizes cookies, an industry standard used by most major web sites, to simplify the connection and data transfer between the client (user) and the server (our web site) by simulating a continuous connection.  A cookie is a small piece of data sent from the server to the client (and in some circumstances from the client to the server), enabling users to access the web site without having to reintroduce themselves with every mouse click.  Web sites can thus "remember" information about users to facilitate their preferences for a particular site and allow the use of user passwords.  Web browsers are usually set up to accept cookies.  You can set yours up to refuse cookies if you prefer, though you may not be able to take full advantage of a web site if you do.

Anonymous Information

Additionally, IMI may gather anonymous information through traffic data, cookies, and IP addresses or other numeric codes. This information is for system administration and helps us aggregate and keep track of statistics which is useful in our continual effort to improve our service.

Security

We intend to take reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information from misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, or alteration.  Your information will be stored in secure databases.  However, while IMI strives to ensure that your information is treated securely, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  IMI cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

Governing Law

This Web Site Privacy Policy is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Missouri without regard to its conflict of laws principles.  Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Web Site Privacy Policy shall be exclusively with the state and federal courts within the State of Missouri.  If any provision of this Web Site Privacy Policy is found to be invalid by a court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Web Site Privacy Policy, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL IMI HAVE ANY LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE BREACH OF THIS WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY, HOWEVER OCCASIONED.

General

IMI may, at any time, revise this Web Site Privacy Policy by updating this posting.
For more information or specific questions please contact us at [add link to IMI’s e-mail account where questions can be sent].

Medical Information

We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of your medical information, and are required by law to do so.  However, this Web Site Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy of your medical information.  Rather, as required by law, we maintain a Notice of Privacy Practices which covers IMI and its physicians and employees, as well as health care professionals working under certain contractual arrangements with IMI.  [Is there one Notice that covers IMI and the PCs or the each of the PCs have a separate one?]  Our Notice of Privacy Practices outlines our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to your medical information.  It also summarizes your rights and our duties with respect to your medical information and describes how our personnel may use and disclose your medical information.  Finally, it describes the complaint process for you to follow if you believe your privacy rights have been violated.  Our Notice of Privacy Practices can be accessed at [include link]. 
You should also note that typically our services are provided in hospitals which are also required to protect your medical information. When providing services within a hospital, our physicians and health care professionals and the health care professionals working under certain contractual arrangements with us are subject to the hospital’s policies and procedures relating to the confidentiality of your medical information. In those instances, our use and disclosure of medical information is described in and governed by the hospital’s Notice of Privacy Practices which is provided to you by the hospital.   As such, our Notice of Privacy Practices referenced in the foregoing paragraph applies only to the extent not inconsistent with any applicable hospital’s notice of privacy practices.  If you have any questions about our Notice of Privacy Practices, please contact [include to Privacy Officer’s e-mail address].