The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a law that was passed in 1996, designed primarily to modernize the flow of health information. At the time, most medical records were in paper form, but it was becoming clear that health data would become digital in the future.
Telford and Heidi Goethert, J93, a microbiologist at the Cummings School, sequenced the spirochete DNA, and identified it as Borrelia miyamotoi, which was first found in ticks in Japan in 1995 and is closely related to the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
The Japanese Yen. You made it to Japan and youâve successfully managed to exchange moneyâ¦what you are now holding are Japanese Yen. Japanese yen are the national currency of Japan. If youâre staying in Japan for a while get used to seeing these bills and coins because they will become a part of your daily life.