HIPAA

At Desert Dietitians we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of information entrusted to us by our clients, especially individually identifiable personal and health information such as names, addresses, and PHI (Protected Health Information).

Desert Dietitians enables our customers to provide state-of-the-art service with their patients via email, text message and live video chat (telehealth services) while fully complying with HIPAA.

Desert Dietitians protects the confidentiality of information it receives by adhering to the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule. The Privacy Rule governs the acquisition, storage, transfer and retention of Protected Health Information, in both electronic and paper formats. The Security Rule covers all information acquired, maintained or transferred electronically.

We comply with all business associate/partner obligations bi-directionally under HIPAA/HITECH, enabling us to provide the highest level of service to our medical customers.

Use and Disclosure of PHI

Desert Dietitians does not use or disclose PHI other than as permitted or required by this HIPAA declaration or as required by law. Desert Dietitians does not use or disclose PHI for fundraising or marketing purposes, or receive remuneration in exchange for PHI.

Desert Dietitians follows all policies and practices such as:

• • Physical security of electronic equipment used to acquire and store PHI
  • Technical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access to PHI
  • Training and awareness for staff members who have access to PHI
  • Any violations or breach of data internally at Desert Dietitians or if given notification of a violation or breach from any associates/partners, it will be promptly reported to Covered Entity
  • Maintaining the information required to provide an accounting of disclosures of PHI, and to make this information available to the Covered Entity upon the Covered Entity’s request

Our HIPAA-ready services include:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services
Multi-channel patient engagement and lead capture
New patient acquisition by improving online reputation across the web
Comprehensive tracking across all system activities to improve performance

Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding our HIPAA Compliance or our Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the information below.

Desert Dietitians
8560 S Eastern Ave Ste 100, Las Vegas, NV 89123, United States
info@desertdietitians.com
702-485-7235