Read the DHA Privacy Board Annual Report for fiscal year 2018.

Read the DHA Privacy Board Annual Report for fiscal year 2016.

This report highlights the major accomplishments of the TMA Privacy Board during FY13. There were three new significant developments that required the Board to adjust some of its processes: 1) A careful study of the streamlining possibilities in viewing the MHS as a HIPAA single covered entity; 2) Clarifying advice received regarding information ...

Read the TMA Privacy Board Annual Report for calendar year 2012.

This flowchart outlines the process the DHA Privacy Board uses to review research related data requests for protected health information (PHI) about individual research participants for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule compliance.

This flowchart outlines the requirements that must be initiated before the DHA Privacy Board reviews a research project for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and Department of Defense (DoD) Health Information Privacy Regulation (DoD 6025.18-R).

This Presentation provides an overview on the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Privacy and Civil Liberties Office (Privacy Office) functions, including the Human Research Project Program (HRPP), the Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) Program, and the DHA Privacy Board’s Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule reviews. This ...

Use this form if a Research Authorization Review template and an Authorization are approved by the DHA Privacy Board, a Principal Investigator (PI) will be required to sign a Principal Investigator Certification. Among other requirements, the certification ensures that the PI will maintain, electronically and/or in hard copy, the signed Authorization ...

Use this form if the researcher intends to obtain HIPAA Authorizations, also known as “Authorizations,” from research participants to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the PI must submit to the DHA Privacy Board a copy of the blank Authorization(s) to be used in the project and the completed Research Authorization Review. The DHA Privacy Board will ...

Use this form if the researcher intends to conduct research that is solely on the protected health information (PHI) of decedents, the PI may submit this template to document the required representations, as outlined above, that are necessary for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Department of Defense (DOD) Health Information Privacy ...

Use this form if the researcher intends to conduct a review of PHI to prepare for a research protocol or for similar purposes preparatory to research (e.g., for recruitment or screening purposes) and agrees not to remove the PHI from DHA, the PI may submit this template to document the required representations, as outlined above, that are necessary ...

Use this form if the researcher has not received documentation from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or HIPAA Privacy Board approving a waiver or alteration of Authorizations and reasons exist that make it impractical or impossible for the researcher to obtain Authorizations from each research participant, the PI may submit an Application for a ...

This Memorandum approves the request for an exception to the policy permitting the establishment and use of a TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) Privacy Board for the limited purpose of reviewing research requests in which the research involves MHS protected health information (PHI) owned and/or managed by TMA.