Zus connects your provider with other healthcare organizations and networks
Your healthcare provider uses Zus to send or receive your health information as necessary to deliver services to you. Organizations can connect directly or through another system, such as a provider’s electronic health record.
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Your healthcare provider uses the Zus Platform to connect to other healthcare organizations and networks (which are altogether called the “Zus Network”) so they can receive or send your health information as necessary for your provider to deliver services to you.
Organizations can connect to Zus directly or through other systems like a provider’s electronic health record in order to send or receive your health information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Exchanges are described as necessary for your provider to deliver services to you.
Zus includes clinical information from your provider’s electronic health record
The information includes visit summaries, clinical notes, allergies, medications, diagnoses, past lab results, treating providers, care plans and similar information contained in your provider’s electronic health record.
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Zus includes the types of health information about you that is contained in your healthcare provider’s electronic health record, such as summaries of your hospital and doctor visits, clinical notes, allergies, medications, diagnoses, past lab test results, a list of your treating providers, your plan of care, and other similar information.
Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception
Access requires HIPAA permission and a healthcare relationship with you
Zus says it strictly limits access under HIPAA and applicable state and federal privacy laws. A healthcare organization may send or receive your information only if HIPAA permits it and it has a direct relationship with you as a covered entity or an indirect relationship as a business associate, for purposes of providing healthcare services to you.
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Zus strictly limits who can access your health information as required by HIPAA and other applicable state and federal privacy laws.
Zus only allows a healthcare organization to receive or send your information if they are permitted to do so under HIPAA and if the organization has a direct relationship with you (i.e., as a “HIPAA Covered Entity”) or an indirect relationship (i.e., as a “HIPAA Business Associate”) for purposes of providing healthcare services to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
The relationship must be for providing healthcare services to you.
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The linked HIPAA eligibility page is not supplied; this card states only the notice’s access rule.
Zus limits exchanges to specified healthcare and public-health activities
In addition to requiring HIPAA-permitted healthcare organizations with a relationship to you, Zus limits sending and receiving your information to treatment, payment, healthcare operations or public-health activities, as those terms are defined under HIPAA.
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In addition to strictly limiting access only to healthcare organizations that are permitted under HIPAA that have a relationship with you to provide services, Zus also limits receiving or sending your information only for treatment, payment, health care operations or public health activities, as those terms are defined under HIPAA.
Qualifications & exceptions
The terms take their meanings from HIPAA; the linked guidance is not supplied in this notice.
Eligible organizations must also have a relationship with you to provide services.
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The linked HIPAA guidance is not supplied, so this card does not describe its detailed definitions or permissions.
Zus describes a security program and SOC 2 Type 2 certification
Zus commits to keeping health records private and secure. It says it maintains an information security program to prevent breaches and has achieved AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 certification meeting criteria for information security, availability and confidentiality. These are the notice’s descriptions, rather than a guarantee that no breach will occur.
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Zus is committed to keeping your health records private and secure.
Zus also maintains a robust information security program to prevent a data breach that might expose your health information, and has achieved AICPA SOC 2, Type 2 certification, meeting AICPA criteria for information security, availability and confidentiality.
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The linked AICPA material and any certification report are not supplied; the notice does not establish the report’s detailed scope or date.
The notice describes care, cost and convenience benefits from sharing
The notice says sharing with healthcare organizations providing services to you can support informed treatment decisions, avoid duplicate laboratory tests and unnecessary costs, and avoid time or inconvenience when a provider lacks needed information. It presents these as benefits of sharing, without promising a particular result for every patient.
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Allowing your health information to be shared with other healthcare organizations that are providing services to you benefits you in several important ways, such as enabling your provider to make more informed treatment decisions for you care, avoiding the need to order a duplicative laboratory test and incur unnecessary costs, and avoiding wasted time or inconvenience for both you and your healthcare provider when information that your provider needs is not available.
Qualifications & exceptions
The described sharing is with healthcare organizations providing services to you.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
You can opt out of sharing through the Zus Network
Participation is voluntary. You can request to stop sharing with other healthcare organizations at any time through your provider if it offers a process, or by submitting the Zus Request to Opt Out Form. The request takes effect immediately after Zus is properly notified by your provider, or five to seven business days after you submit directly to Zus. Previously shared information remains with recipients, and opting out through Zus does not stop other provider sharing channels.
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Yes, your participation is voluntary and at any time you can stop Zus from sharing your information with other healthcare organizations by “opting out” of the Zus Network.
You may opt through your healthcare provider if they offer a process for doing so, or you may opt out directly through Zus by completing the Zus Request to Opt Out Form. Your request to opt out will be effective immediately after we are properly notified by your healthcare provider and your Zus Request to Opt Out will be effective five (5) to seven (7) business days after you submit your request to Zus.
Please note that any of your health information that Zus has already shared before your Request to Opt Out is effective will remain with those organizations that received it.
Opting out of sharing through Zus will not prevent your healthcare provider from sharing your health information with other providers who are treating you by telephone, fax, secure email or by mail if requested. Also, your healthcare provider may use systems other than Zus for purposes of sending or receiving your health information.
Qualifications & exceptions
The provider route is available only if your provider offers it.
Effectiveness depends on the route: proper provider notification or five to seven business days after direct submission.
Already shared information stays with recipients, and other provider sharing channels remain possible.
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The linked Zus opt-out form is not supplied, so its required fields and submission details are not established here.
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qualified by (model-proposed): Opting out does not recall information already shared — Opting out takes effect prospectively; organizations retain information already received before the request becomes effective.
contrast (model-proposed): Zus may keep your information after a Zus-form opt-out — You may stop network sharing while Zus may still retain information for your own provider’s service-related access and use after a Zus-form opt-out.
Opting out does not recall information already shared
Information Zus shared before your opt-out becomes effective remains with the organizations that received it. The choice therefore stops future network sharing when effective, rather than withdrawing copies already sent.
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Please note that any of your health information that Zus has already shared before your Request to Opt Out is effective will remain with those organizations that received it.
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qualifies (model-proposed): You can opt out of sharing through the Zus Network — Opting out takes effect prospectively; organizations retain information already received before the request becomes effective.
Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Zus may keep your information after a Zus-form opt-out
After an opt-out using the Zus form, Zus may still store and maintain your health information so your own provider can access and use it as needed to provide services to you. The notice directs people using a provider’s form instead to that provider’s form and FAQ materials; it does not establish the same consequences for that route.
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Zus may still store and maintain your health information to enable your healthcare provider to access and use your health information as they may need in order to provide services to you, but Zus will not allow your healthcare provider to receive your health information from, or share your health information with, any other healthcare organizations after your request to opt out has become effective.
Please note that this information only applies if you opt out of sharing using the Zus opt out form. If you opt out using your provider’s form instead, please review their opt-out form and FAQ policy materials instead.
Qualifications & exceptions
Continued storage and access are described for enabling your provider to provide services to you.
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The provider-form consequences depend on its separate materials, which are not supplied.
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contrast (model-proposed): You can opt out of sharing through the Zus Network — You may stop network sharing while Zus may still retain information for your own provider’s service-related access and use after a Zus-form opt-out.
A Zus-form opt-out stops provider exchanges with other organizations through Zus
Once an opt-out using the Zus form is effective, Zus will not allow your provider to receive your information from, or share it with, other healthcare organizations through Zus. This does not erase your information: Zus may retain it for your provider’s own access and use to provide services. Provider-form opt-outs follow separate materials. Other sharing channels remain possible.
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Zus may still store and maintain your health information to enable your healthcare provider to access and use your health information as they may need in order to provide services to you, but Zus will not allow your healthcare provider to receive your health information from, or share your health information with, any other healthcare organizations after your request to opt out has become effective.
Please note that this information only applies if you opt out of sharing using the Zus opt out form. If you opt out using your provider’s form instead, please review their opt-out form and FAQ policy materials instead.
Opting out of sharing through Zus will not prevent your healthcare provider from sharing your health information with other providers who are treating you by telephone, fax, secure email or by mail if requested. Also, your healthcare provider may use systems other than Zus for purposes of sending or receiving your health information.
Qualifications & exceptions
The block on network exchanges starts only when the request is effective.
Zus may retain information for your provider’s own service-related access and use; other sharing channels remain available.
Providers can still share information outside Zus after an opt-out
In discussing the Zus-form opt-out, the notice says opting out through Zus does not prevent your provider from sharing information with other treating providers by telephone, fax, secure email or mail if requested. Your provider may also use other systems to send or receive your information. The notice directs you to your provider’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices for more information.
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Opting out of sharing through Zus will not prevent your healthcare provider from sharing your health information with other providers who are treating you by telephone, fax, secure email or by mail if requested. Also, your healthcare provider may use systems other than Zus for purposes of sending or receiving your health information. You should read your provider’s HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices for more information.
Please note that this information only applies if you opt out of sharing using the Zus opt out form. If you opt out using your provider’s form instead, please review their opt-out form and FAQ policy materials instead.
Qualifications & exceptions
The listed direct channels concern sharing, if requested, with other providers treating you.
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The provider’s own privacy notice and opt-out materials are not supplied.
The notice warns that opting out can affect care, cost and sharing security
If you do not let your provider send or receive information through Zus, the notice says the provider may lack up-to-date history or condition information, making diagnosis or care harder. Incomplete information increases the risk of duplicate or unnecessary tests and higher costs. Providers may also use alternatives the notice describes as less secure, such as fax or email. These are potential consequences, rather than outcomes that must follow every opt-out.
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Yes. For example, if you do not allow your healthcare provider to send or receive your information through Zus: (1) Your provider may not have up to date information about your health history or conditions, which may make it more difficult for your provider to diagnose your problems or provide you the care you need, (2) When your provider has incomplete information about you it increases the risk that they will order duplicative or unnecessary testing, which can result in higher than necessary healthcare costs for you, and (3) Your provider may use alternative, less secure methods of sharing information with other providers who are treating you, such as fax or email.
Qualifications & exceptions
The risks concern declining information exchange through Zus; they are possibilities, not inevitable outcomes.
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contrast (model-proposed): You can opt out of sharing through the Zus Network — Participation is voluntary, but the notice warns of potential care, cost and security consequences if your provider cannot exchange information through Zus.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
You can rejoin sharing through Zus with its opt-in form
You can change your mind and opt back in to sharing through Zus by completing the Zus Request to Opt In Form. This notice does not give a processing time for opting back in.