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 also use boke to mean senility, and in such compound words as jisaboke (æå·®ã¼ã), time-lag boke , meaning jet lag, heiwa-boke (å¹³åãã±), peace boke , meaning a state of complacency induced by an excess of peacefulness, and tennen-boke (å¤©ç¶ã¼ã), natural boke , meaning airhead.oke is also the name of a plant known in English as the Japanese quince or flowering quince, scientific name Chaenomeles speciosa. 1  sci.lang.japan FAQ. 2  6. 3  Previous: What words have the same kanji in China and Japan but different meanings? 4  Next: What is the difference between shiru and wakaru?