Q&A: Research Health Information
HIPAA
The blog of Ohio State's Human Research Protection Program
In June 2021, the Office of Responsible Research Practices, Wexner Medical Center Compliance and Integrity, Wexner Medical Center Information Technology and Security, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Enterprise Security, offered a session on the new university HIPAA policy. The webinar materials are now available on the web; answers to questions submitted by attendees will be answered in a forthcoming post.
As announced in OnCampus yesterday, the Wexner Medical Center Compliance and Integrity office is proposing a new Protected Health Information and HIPAA Policy. Once in effect, “research” will be designated as a non-covered function and fall outside of HIPAA regulations, regardless of the unit employing the researchers. Procedure IV concerns the disclosure of PHI for research purposes. ORRP encourages the research community to review and comment on the proposed policy during the public comment period, which closes January 25, 2021.