Privacy Policy
Medical Echoes: What You Need to Know
The Echocentrum is part of Verloskundige praktijk Amstelveen/Buitenveldert and has two locations, located in Amstelveen and Amsterdam Buitenveldert.
The practice is registered under registration number 34352380 in the Trade Register of the Chamber of Commerce.
Processing of personal data
Your personal data is used to register you correctly in our system. We have our own secure servers and The Echocentrum has processor agreements with its IT partners to manage these. We will not combine this data with other personal data in our possession.This data will remain on our servers until you request us to delete it.
You have the right to know what data we record and why. Data is recorded if you give permission. Moreover, only data necessary for the provision of care are recorded. Sometimes it may be important to the provision of care for a member of The Echo Center staff to consult or exchange information with your obstetrician or gynecologist. Again, the employee may only do that if you have given your prior consent.
You can register at The Echo Center for medical examinations; a vitality ultrasound, a term ultrasound, an ETSEO (13-week ultrasound), a TTSEO (20-week ultrasound), a growth ultrasound, a positioning ultrasound or a placenta check.
The Echocentrum can bill these tests directly to your insurance company.
The Echocentrum needs a lot of personal information from you; name and address information, but also your BSN and insurance information.
The Echocentrum uses this information exclusively in the contact with your own insurance company. Claims are created and sent through VECOZO’s secure website.
Communications
When you send e-mail or other messages to us, we may retain those messages. Sometimes we will ask you for additional information relevant to the situation at hand. This allows us to process your questions and respond to your requests. The data is stored on The Echo Center’s own secure servers in conjunction with the certified servers of our IT partner. We will not combine this data with other personal data in our possession. This data will remain on our servers until you ask us to delete it.
Duty of Silence
The employee of The Echo Center records some information about you and about the conversations he or she has with you in a file. This employee is bound to strict confidentiality (the so-called “duty of silence”). Only colleagues at The Ultrasound Center, for whom their job requires it, may look at your file.
Right of inspection
You may review your file at any time. If you find that it contains incorrect data, you have the right to ask to have it changed.
Retention period
The Echo Center is required by law to keep your records for 20 years. We do this carefully. After this period, your hard copy data will be destroyed.
Processors and other third parties
Personal data may be processed on behalf of The Echocentrum by so-called processors and sub-processors.
Processors and sub-processors act under the responsibility of The Echocentrum and may not perform their own processing operations on the Personal Data. Your personal data will not be provided to other parties except those described in this privacy statement. Your personal data will also be provided to other parties if we are required to do so by law or court order.
Peridos and privacy
What is Peridos?
The Echocentrum, like all other screening centers in the Netherlands, provides data for Peridos. Peridos is the national perinatology (pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium) file, which records data from prenatal screening.
This database contains the data of healthcare providers and healthcare facilities that have a contract with one of the eight regional centers. These contracts include conducting counseling sessions and performing prenatal screening: First and Second Trimester Structural Ultrasound Examination (13 and 20 week ultrasound). In addition, care content data are recorded that allow insight into the quality of prenatal screening. If you decide to participate in the screening, it means that your data will be used for that purpose. These data are needed to diagnose and possibly offer treatment and to ensure the quality of care.
Use of Peridos data
Health care providers involved in your screening can access your information. The regional center can also access the data in Peridos. The regional center coordinates the screening program and monitors the quality of implementation by all involved health care providers. To do so, it is licensed by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). The regional center monitors quality using, among other things, the data in Peridos. Healthcare providers themselves are also engaged in quality assurance. Sometimes this requires them to compare data among themselves. If you wish, your personal information can be deleted from Peridos after the screening is completed. If so, report this to The Echo Center. The system is optimally secured to ensure your privacy.
Scientific research
Others besides your health care providers and the regional center cannot access your personal information. Only anonymous data is used for statistics, such as how many pregnant women use prenatal screening. This means that the data cannot in any way be traced back to you as a person. Nor by those who compile the statistics. The same applies to scientific research. To continually improve prenatal screening, scientific research is needed. This almost always takes place exclusively with anonymous data. In doing so, as many precautions as possible have been taken so that the data cannot be traced back to you or your child. In exceptional cases, traceable data are required for scientific research. Don’t want your data used in such an exception? If so, report this to The Echo Center.
Of course, your decision has no bearing on how you are treated before, during or after the screening. For more information, visit the Peridos website: www.peridos.nl
Your privacy rights
Based on the General Data Protection Regulation (“AVG”), you have a number of rights. You have the right to request The Echocentrum to inspect (art. 15 AVG) and rectify (art. 16 AVG) or erase your personal data (art. 17 AVG).
You also have the right to request The Echocentrum to restrict the processing of personal data (art. 18 AVG). Under certain circumstances, you also have the right to data portability (Art. 20 AVG) and the right to object (Art. 21 AVG). The website of the Personal Data Authority has more information on when it is possible to exercise one or more of these rights. If you wish to exercise one or more of these rights, please contact us through the contact options listed above. Apart from the above rights, you always have the right to file a complaint with the Personal Data Authority.
Changes
This privacy statement is subject to change. It is therefore advisable to regularly consult this privacy statement. The current version of the privacy statement was last modified on July 28, 2024.
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