For proper treatment, it is necessary for me, as your treating therapist, to create a file. This is also a legal obligation imposed by the Medical Treatment Agreement Act in the Netherlands (WGBO). Your file contains notes regarding your health condition and data regarding the examinations and treatments performed.
The file also includes data necessary for your treatment that I have requested from another healthcare provider, such as your general practitioner, after obtaining your explicit consent.
I do my best to safeguard your privacy. This means, among other things, that I:
I have a legal duty of confidentiality (professional secrecy).
The data from your file may also be used for the following purposes:
If I wish to use your data for any other reason, I will first inform you and explicitly ask for your consent.
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time.
These data in the client file will be retained for 20 years, as required by the Treatment Agreement Act.
The healthcare invoice you receive contains the data requested by the health insurer so that you can submit this invoice to your health insurer for reimbursement: