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The University of Iowa IRB-01 operates as a Privacy Board as described in the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (the Privacy Rule) (45 CFR 160 and 164) of the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when research involves Protected Health Information as described in this act.
IRB-03 operates as a Privacy Board for the Iowa City VAHCS under the authority of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Iowa City VAHCS outlining IRB responsibilities. The request for a full or partial waiver of HIPAA authorization opens in the application based on the PI’s response to either Section IV or Section VII, Question D.1 The HawkIRB system requires that the IRB Chair or his/her IRB member designee conducting an expedited review either concur with the investigator’s protocol-specific findings justifying determinations required by the regulations or document such findings themselves prior to approval.