Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 HHS settles HIPAA case with BCBST for $1.5 million First enforcement action resulting from HITECH Breach Notification Rule Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1‚500‚000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules‚ Leon Rodriguez‚ Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)‚ announced
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the Holocaust was an act against “Human Rights on A World Scale” because of the fact that its aftermath cause between five and six million Jewish deaths. No one truly knows why Hitler did what he did but all the same we must remember our past and teach it to the youth before we allow them to make decision about their future. The human right that was being violated was the right to live. Hitler basically killed anyone he didn’t like because he felt that they did not deserve to live. He felt that the
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Lydia Butler Board of Directors Apple A. Board of Directors 1. William V. Campbell Chairman Intuit‚ Inc. (external) 1983 Tim Cook CEO Apple (internal) 2011 Millard S. Drexler Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Crew (external) 1999 Albert Gore‚ Jr. Former Vice President of the United States (external) 2003 Andrea Jung Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Avon Products‚ Inc. (external) 2008 Arthur D. Levinson‚ Ph.D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Genentech
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What does it mean to be an American today? This is a very difficult question to answer‚ but I believe that it is not just an academic question. As our society becomes more diverse‚ America will develop a broader and richer culture. At the same time‚ nations depend upon some sort of core values‚ beliefs‚ and identity to cling to. That requires some sort of definition of what it means to be an American‚ so I believe that the questions should be: “How Would You Define an American Today?” An “American”
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this in two parts. Activity 1a to be submitted on 20 March 2013 1 General background information about the organisation. (100 words) * The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was created under section 57 of the 2010 Constitution of the Cayman Islands. The first Director of Public Prosecutions of the Cayman Islands was appointed on May 1st 2011. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is an independent statutory that is responsible for administration of all criminal
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Suze Orman Summary In the essay that Suze Orman wrote‚ “How to Take Control of Your Credit Cards”‚ Orman says that it is only a matter of choice whether or not you learn to take control of your credit cards. Orman states‚ when you’re paying high interest rates on credit cards you have maxed out‚ you could be paying ridiculous amounts of money just in interest. And it could take you years to pay it off. People often overspend on there credit cards‚ charging anything and everything they purchase
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National Identity is created by the state.” Do you agree with the statement? Explain your answer. A national identity is a person’s identity and sense of belonging to a state or to a nation‚ a feeling which one shares with a group of people‚ regardless of one’s citizenship status. It is a sense of emotional attachment and as feelings are something that cannot be forced and created by the state but instead must be what an individual truly feels. Hence‚ as the sense of attachment is created by the
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and mindsets of the world. Thus‚ it is especially important that they are held accountable for their actions‚ even those undertaken in private. Although it is often argued that we can overlook what is done in private if the person performs his or her public job well‚ it is indeed worrying with their massive influence over society. In my opinion‚ public figures should be held accountable for their actions‚ even those undertaken in private. With technological advances in the past few decades‚ innovations
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social norms we must understand what they are and the various ways in which they can be broken and violated. These violations can vary greatly and be anywhere between quirky and frightening. The intensity of discomfort associated with these violations depends not only on the violation itself but on the individual performing‚ experiencing‚ or witnessing it making the spectrum of reactions widespread and interesting. There are two ways to truly explore norm violations‚ to observe others both performing
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thoughts and ideas verbally. Not only is language a tool of communication‚ it’s also an implement of thinking which is related to the way in which children acquire knowledge‚ their reasoning and their observations. Within this essay I shall be discussing what and how children learn in the process of conducting a conversation with an adult‚ by exploring children’s acquisition in terms of linguistic and communicative competence with reference to the dialogue and other supporting evidence. In relation to
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