The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA) to provide the first comprehensive Federal protection for the privacy of personal health information. ... Instead they passed that responsibility to the Department of Health and Human Services. The final version of the HIPAA Privacy regulations were issued in December 2000, and went into effect on April 14, 2001. ... It also says if you gave the information to someone like a ...

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Elders is a member of numerous professional organizations and service organization boards. ... Elders became Surgeon General of the Public Health Service on September 8, 1993, appointed by President Clinton. ... Her last day in office was December 31, 1994. ...

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My hypothesis is that the increase in demand for medical services results by increase of non-Kuwaiti health professionals, which shatters the stability and quality of the Kuwaiti health sector. ... The development program 2010-2014 was designed to improve the quality of health care services, and to bring it to the level that would justify the cost (World Health Organization, 2014,14-17). ... The non-Kuwaiti residents are provided with full and high quality health services through medical insurance (Central Statistical Bureau, 2013, 19). Big economic power has enabled the government to provide ...

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