Privacy Policy

Various personal data about you may be processed in our general practice. This is necessary to be able to treat you medically and necessary for the financial settlement of the treatment. In addition, processing may be necessary for, for example, combating a serious threat to your health or to comply with a legal obligation (for example, the obligation to report an infectious disease under the public health law).

Duties Practice

Bonaire Medical Center is responsible for the processing of personal data that takes place in practice. The practice does this as follows:

• Your data is collected for specific purposes:
  • For care provision;
  • For effective management and policy;
  • To support scientific research, education and information.
• In principle, no processing takes place for other purposes.
• You will be informed that your personal data is being processed. This can be done by your healthcare provider, but also via a brochure or via our website.
• All employees within Bonaire Medical Center are obliged to treat your personal data confidentially.
• Your personal data is well protected against unauthorized access.
• Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary for good care.

For medical data, this retention period is in principle 15 years (from the last treatment), unless longer storage is necessary, for example for the health of yourself or your children. This is at the discretion of the practitioner.

Your rights as a patient:

You have the following rights:

• The right to know whether and which of your personal data is being processed.
• The right to inspect and receive a copy of that data (insofar as this does not harm the privacy of another person).
• The right to correction, addition or deletion of data if necessary.
• The right to request (partial) destruction of your medical data. This can only be met if the retention of the data for someone else is not of significant importance and the data does not have to be retained on the basis of a statutory regulation.
• The right to add a personal statement (of a medical nature) to your file.
• The right to object to the processing of your data in certain cases.

If you want to make use of your rights, you can make this known verbally or by email to balie1@cmcbonaire.com. Your interests may also be represented by a representative (such as a written representative, or your trustee or mentor).

Young people aged 16 and over who want to inspect/copy their medical file must submit the application themselves.

Provision of your personal data to third parties

The employees of Bonaire Medical Center have the obligation to treat your personal data confidentially. This means, for example, that the healthcare provider needs your explicit permission to provide your personal data. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. Pursuant to a statutory regulation, the duty of confidentiality of the care provider can be breached, but also when there is a fear of a serious danger to your health or that of a third party. In addition, if necessary, recorded data can be exchanged verbally, in writing or digitally with other healthcare providers (for example, the pharmacist who processes a prescription and thus receives data from the attending physician).

Data exchange

Bonaire Medical Center exchanges relevant medical data with the Urgent Care Clinic (hap). If you had a bite in the evening or at the weekend, the latter in turn shares an observation message with the general practitioner. This way the GP knows with which complaints you have been at the hap and what treatment has been used.

Medication data can also be shared with your pharmacy and your treating medical specialists. This concerns the medication that the GP has prescribed for you, but also any intolerances, contraindications and allergies. Other prescribers and providers of medication can take this into account. In this way, as a general practice, we contribute to medication safety.

If you do not want data to be exchanged with the general practitioner, pharmacy or your treating medical specialists, you can object to this via balie1@cmcbonaire.com.