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.
Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku are the four main islands. Those are not the regions. â¦ There are 12 regions in Japan. Those 12 regions names are: Kansai, Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Hokuriku, Koshin'etsu, Tokai, Chugoku,Shikoku, Kyushu, and the Ryuku islands. What regions is Japan in?