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.
Peko is more popular in Japan than the Utz girl in the United States. Most of the people in Japan know about Peko and have seen her somewhere. Sheâs been on TV and in magazines, and her real-size dolls were placed in many places. Peko merchandise is ubiquitous.