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.
Nintendo Remains The Top Dog In Japan. This weeks sales figures have come in direct from Japan and they once again show that Nintendo remains top at its game. The Nintendo 3DS sold a respectable 80,175 units, and its closest competitor, the PlayStation Portable, sold 23,061 units.