Organized Healthcare Arrangement
Overlake Hospital Medical Center (“OHMC”) is part of an organized health care arrangement (“OHCA”) under HIPAA with participating providers of the Puget Sound High Value Network. As participants in the OHCA, OHMC and the OHCA participants engage in quality assessment and improvement activities through which treatment provided by each organization is assessed by the other participants. As permitted by HIPAA, OHMC may share the health information of its patients with the OHCA participants when necessary for health care operations purposes of the OHCA.