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.
Animal Crossing, known in Japan as DÅbutsu no Mori (ã©ãã¶ã¤ã®æ£®), is a life simulation video game developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. It was originally published for the Nintendo 64 in Japan on April 14, 2001. It was enhanced and re-released on the GameCube in Japan later the same year as DÅbutsu no Mori + (ã©ãã¶ã¤ã®æ£®+). It was then released in other countries in 2002-2004. Finally a third version, DÅbutsu no Mori e+ (ã©ãã¶ã¤ã®æ£®e+), was released only in Japan in 2003.