2008-065 Health - UNC Medicine and Health Dept

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~i} if feasible, return or destroy all protected health information received from or created or received by Business Associate an behalf of Covered Entity that Business Associate still .maintains in any form. Business Associate shall only destroy protected health information with the written approval of Covered Entity. After return or destruction, Business Associate shall retain nv copies of such information. iii} if return or destruction is not feasible, Business Associate will provide Covered Entity with documentatian explaining -the reason that it is not feasible. if the protected health information is not returned ar destroyed, Business Associate will extend the protections of this Agreement to the information and limit further uses and disclosures to those purposes that make the return or destruction of the information nat feasible. ~d} Survival: The obligations of Business Associate under this Agreement shall survive the expiration, termination, or cancellation of this Agreement, the Arrangement Agreement andlor the business relationship of the parties, and shell continue to bind Business Associate, its agents, employees, contractors, successors, and assigns as set forth herein. V. Il~ISCELLANEDUS ~a} All protected health information that is created or received by Covered Entity and disclosed or made available in any farm, including paper record, oral communication, audio recording, and electronic display by Covered Entity or its operating units to Business Associate or is created yr received by Business Associate on Covered Entity's behalf shall be subject to this Agreement. fib} A reference in this Agreement to a section in the 1~11PAA Privacy Rule means the section as in effect or as amended. ~c} In the event of an inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement including definitions} and mandatory provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, as amended, the NIPAA Privacy Rule shall control. Where provisions of this Agreement are differentthan these mandated in the HIPAA Privacy Rule, but are nonetheless permitted by the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the provisions of this Agreement shall control. ~d} Except as expressly stated herein or the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the parties to this Agreement do not intend to create any rights in any third parties. fie} This Agreement may be amended ar modified only in a writing signed by the Parties. No Party may assign its respective rights and obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other Party. None of the provisions of this Agreement are intended to create, nor will they be deemed to create any relationship between the Parties other than that of independent parties contracting with each other solely far the purposes of effecting the pravisians of this Agreement and any other agreements between the Parties evidencing their business relationship. (fl This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina. fig} No change, waiver ar discharge of any liability or obligation hereunder on any one or more occasions shall be deemed a waiver of performance of any continuing or other obligation, yr shall prohibit enfarcementofany obligation, on any other occasion. h The parties agree that, in the event that any documentation of the arrangement pursuant to which 43 Business Associate provides services to Covered Entity contains pravisians relating to the use or disclosure of protected health information that are more restrictive than the pravisians of this Agreement, the provisions of the more restrictive documentation will control. ~i} In the eventthat any provision ofthis Agreement is held by a courtvf competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder ofthe provisions ofthis Agreement will remain in full force and effect. a~-os ocBA~ with uNC ~~ Page 3 0~`4