University Data, which includes Academic, Clinical, Research, and Administrative Data, is not owned by a particular department; they are valuable assets of the University as a whole. Tulane is committed to protecting the privacy of University Data. It is our collective responsibility to safeguard and use the data to further the institutional mission, with availability of data to individuals with a legitimate need for it, consistent with the University’s responsibility to preserve and protect such information.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-91 (“HIPAA”), as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder by the United States Department of Health and Human Services establishing standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information (the “HIPAA Privacy Regulations”), will impose new obligations on Tulane University to protect the privacy of such information.