Authorization for Release of Health Information

• Disclosure tracking for UC Davis Health System. Enter your disclosures here. (Intranet only)
• Disclosure training — Short summary of disclosure policy and procedures.

• Notice of privacy practices — The notice to patients of what UC Davis Health System does with health information.
• Notificacion de las practicas de privacidad
• Уведомление о правилах конфиденциальности [Russian notice]
• Acknowledgment of receipt of notice
• Notice of privacy practices, mental health patients — California law has significant effect upon privacy practices for mental health patients, so a separate notice is provided.

Applications and forms

• Research preparation application — To obtain permission to review PHI in preparation for a research project. Do not use if you intend to use the data for publication.
• Decedent research application — To obtain permission to use PHI for decedent research when no identifiers are linked to living persons.
• Research authorization — Standard authorization for release of information for research. Download and customize for your project.
• UC Davis Human Subjects Forms

Guidance

• De-identification — Methods and guidance regarding both statistical and "safe harbor" methods of de-identifying protected health information.
• Limited datasets — Requirements for limited data sets and data use agreements.
• Research quick reference — Quick guide to changes occurring with HIPAA.
• Research Q&A
• HIPAA Privacy Rule and Its Impacts on Research — NIH site acting as repository for government guidance on HIPAA and research.
• Health Services Research and the HIPAA Privacy Rule — guidance from NIH

• Full text of HIPAA regulations as of April 17, 2003.
• HIPAA administrative simplification act
• Penalties under HIPAA

Internal

• Social networking guidance - Intranet
• Frequently asked questions - Last updated Wednesday, Oct 4, 2006.
• Friends, relatives, neighbors - Who can you talk to about a patient's condition?
• Managers' HIPAA guide - A basic list of “to-do's” for every manager.
• University of California — About HIPAA - Main UC Office of the President site.

External

• Am I a covered entity? A decision tool developed by DHHS
• CalOHI documents — Set of policies and procedures for state agencies.
• Office for Civil Rights — Privacy of Health Records
• Privacy case examples
• The right to privacy — The seminal law article in the United States. Discusses threat to privacy by new technologies. Written in 1890.

• Privacy and Security Self Study Module- New module
  For annual Privacy and Security training credit, please log-in to UC Learning Center
• HIPAA research self-study module

You will need to know your employee ID number available so you can document taking these courses. Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5 (or later) is required. When you submit the roster form, you will receive a message that the information has been sent. If that does not appear, you may have a computer compatibility problem or an earlier version of Acrobat Reader. In that case, print only the roster form page, fill it out and send to:

HIPAA administrative simplification compliance deadlines