Privacy Policy of Hoshizora Eye Clinic
Hoshizora Eye Clinic is fully committed to protecting our patients’ personal information.
We use personal information for the purposes listed below and handle all information with the utmost care.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our handling of personal information, please feel free to contact our reception desk.
Director, Hoshizora Eye Clinic
Provision of Medical Care
- Provision of medical services at Hoshizora Eye Clinic
- Coordination with other medical institutions, clinics, birthing centers, pharmacies, home-care nursing stations, and long-term care service providers
- Responding to inquiries from other medical institutions
- Seeking opinions or advice from external physicians and other healthcare professionals for patient care
- Outsourcing laboratory testing and other contracted services
- Providing explanations of the patient's medical condition to family members and others
- Other uses related to the provision of medical care to the patient
Administrative Procedures for Medical Fee Billing
- Administrative tasks related to medical insurance, nursing-care insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, and publicly funded healthcare, as well as related outsourcing
- Submission of medical fee claims (receipts) to review and payment organizations
- Responding to inquiries from review and payment organizations or insurers
- Submission of claims and responses to inquiries to governmental agencies related to publicly funded healthcare
- Other uses necessary for medical-fee billing related to medical, nursing-care, workers’ compensation, and publicly funded healthcare
Clinic Management and Administrative Operations
- Accounting and bookkeeping
- Reporting of medical accidents and similar incidents
- Improving the medical services provided to the patient
- Ward management for admissions and discharges
- Other uses related to the management and operation of Hoshizora Eye Clinic