In 1996, HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted into law. This law has had a significant impact on the health care industry including the need for numerous changes in the way we communicate with our patients, their families, and with each other.
Skepticism is an approach to evaluating claims that emphasizes evidence and applies tools of science. Skepticism is most often applied to extraordinary claims â those that refute the current consensus view. The Skeptical process considers evidence obtained by systematic observations and reason.
SOME NOTES ON THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. The outsider to science is tempted to think that science is merely the accumulation of facts. Facts are important in science, but are only part of a larger structure composed of theories, hypotheses, and models that attempt to not just catalogue the facts, but to explain them. The Scientific Method has evolved into a sophisticated system of investigation of nature. The system is conducted within a rational and logical framework which does not make appeals to the supernatural to explain nature's phenomena.