Institutional Review Board
RESEARCH PARTICIPANT AUTHORIZATION TO USE PROTECTED
HEALTH INFORMATION
This form is to be signed by research participants in addition to the written
Informed Consent, or, in the case that a written informed consent is authorized to
be waived and is not used, this form must be signed anytime that protected health
information will be used during a research project.
This does not authorize release of protected health information from any health care
organization or provider.
Your records are confidential but may be revealed to appropriate institutional or
federal authorities.
There is a federal law (HIPAA), which protects the confidentiality of your health
information. This section of the informed consent explains how your health information
will be used and disclosed for this study and describes your rights, including the right to
see your health information. Any information collected about you in this study is
confidential and your name will not be released in any reports or publication without your
expressed consent.
By signing this document, you allow the researcher to use your Personal Health
Information to carry out this Study. This may include information in your medical
records such as medical histories, blood samples, x-rays, physical examinations and any
other data created or collected during the Study.
By signing this document, you also allow the researcher to release your Health
Information to the Institutional Review Board (a group at the University that oversees all
research), the study Sponsor (organization that provides funds for conducting the study)
and any representatives who work on behalf of Sponsor to conduct the Study. Other
persons/investigators directly involved in this study may also receive your Personal
Health Information. Research data sent to the sponsor or other persons does not include
your name, address, or social security number. Instead, you will be assigned a patient
identification number. Your non-identifiable information may also be given to the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and other government health agencies around the world
upon their request.
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The Sponsor may also reanalyze the results of the study at a later date and combine them
with results of other studies. While using the information in these ways, the sponsor may
give it to its affiliated companies in the US or other countries. The sponsor may also
share the information with its business partners or companies it hires to provide studyrelated services. Again, no identifying information about you will be released at any time
except by an identification number.
The information may be given to the FDA or other government health agencies as part of
applications to gain approval of treatments or to meet other reporting requirements such
as reporting side effects. The results of the study may also be presented to other health
care professionals and published in scientific journals or publications but your identity
will not be disclosed.
You have a right to see and make copies of your medical records.
To ensure the reliability of the Study, however, you agree that you will not be able to see
or copy your records related to the Study until the Sponsor has completed all work related
to the Study. At that time, you may ask to see the Investigator's copy of your medical
records.
You may cancel your authorization at any time.
This authorization to use and disclose your Health Information does not have an
expiration date. You may cancel your authorization at any time by sending a written
notice to the Researcher/Investigator named in this consent at the following address:
Texas A&M University - Commerce
Institutional Review Board
c/o Office of Research & Sponsored Research
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
If you cancel your authorization, the Investigator will no longer use or disclose your
Health Information for this Study. However, we are required to record anything that
relates to safety of drugs.
I understand the above with regard to my privacy rights.
Research Participant Signature
Witness
May 15, 2014
Date