This instruction establishes the Center for Clinical Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), formerly known as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Program Office, under the Defense Health Agency (DHA). CCLM has the primary responsibility to develop Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) comparable regulations and administer the CLIP in accordance with ...

This instruction establishes and reissues policies and assigns responsibilities for the collection of information and the control of the paperwork burden consistent with chapter 35 of Title 44, United States Code.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically. The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect ...

This instruction reissues DOD Directive 1010.10 (Reference (a)) as a DOD instruction (DoDI) in accordance with the authority in DODD 5124.02 (Reference (b)) to establish policy and assign responsibilities for health promotion and disease prevention in accordance with References (c) through (f).

This Instruction reissues and renames DOD Directive 8500.01E as a DOD Instruction pursuant to the authority in DODD 5144.02 to establish a DoD cybersecurity program to protect and defend DOD information and information technology (IT).

This Instruction reissues and renames DOD Instruction (DODI) 8510.01 in accordance with the authority in DOD Directive (DODD) 5144.02. It also establishes the RMF for DOD IT (referred to in this Instruction as “the RMF”), establishing associated cybersecurity policy, and assigning responsibilities for executing and maintaining the RMF.

This regulation directs standardized implementation of endorsed evidence-based falls risk assessment tools: the Johns Hopkins Hospital Fall Risk Assessment© (adult) and the Miami Children’s Hospital’s Humpty Dumpty Scale© (pediatric). In addition, this regulation requires incorporation of falls assessment documentation into the inpatient (Essentris) ...

In accordance with the authority in DOD Directive 5124.02 (Reference (a)), this instruction establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides direction to provide food and beverages to certain uniformed service members, former members, and dependents not receiving inpatient care in MTFs, in accordance with the authority of section 1078b of ...

The purpose of this regulation is to provide policy and recommendations that will help ensure minimal risk of fires associated with the performance of surgical procedures in any healthcare setting to include, but not limited to, the following: operating room (OR), office-based, ambulatory surgery, and intensive care unit type.

Establishes DOD policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for funding and administration of Research and Clinical Investigation Programs (CIP) funded by the Defense Health Program (DHP) appropriation.