The Office of Compliance has posted two new guidance documents for researchers:

• HIPAA guidance for non-HCC members’ access to PHI through contractual agreements
  
  This document is for those individuals who are appointed or enrolled outside the Health Care Component (HCC), not brought into the HCC by other policy or regulation, and would like to receive access to protected health information (PHI) under a contractual agreement.
  
• International Human Subjects Research Process Guidance
  
  This guidance is for research teams engaged in international studies with human subjects data, where the data is coming into the university from external sources. These steps can be taken concurrently.