Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Corrigan Care is an agency focused on helping parents take care of children with special needs. This agency is located on the heart of Roswell city and officially become a licensed childcare center on July of 2017 to provide services for families who were unable to find a childcare center that would not reject their children. The amount of care centers that are equipped and specialized on helping children with autism and other special needs are limited and expensive. There has also been an…

Developing a single patient engagement platform across all care settings, with predictive healthcare management tools, will help empower patients to better manage their health and coordinate with all of their providers for improved healthcare outcomes. Although the healthcare organization may have an existing patient portal, this may not be offering the correct tools and benefits to the patient. Research previously discussed in this paper determined there would be positive outcomes of…

Nursing Home Residents’ Rights Jose A. Meza Wayland Baptist University Abstract When considering end of life care, long-term care facilities have and will continue to be a popular selection amongst the elderly and their family members. For most seniors, the transition into a nursing home can bring upon several mixed emotions of fear, anxiety, and a tendency to believe that all choices and personal dignity becomes lost or surrendered. In actuality, nursing home residents are entitled to many…

The Millennium Falcon is one of the fastest ships in the Star Wars universe. It makes the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. This “hunk of junk” has outmaneuvered a fleet of TIE fighters through an asteroid field and, while most ships in Star Wars — from Imperial Star Destroyers to X-Wing fighters — are capable of faster-than-light travel, only the Millennium Falcon has the benefit of specialized care from Han Solo and his trusted copilot Chewbacca. Like Han Solo, business professionals are…

turn to drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism to deal with traumatic war experiences (Jacobson et al., 2008). According to the 2008 Department of Defense (DOD) Survey of Health Related Behaviors, 12% to 15% of the 88, 205 service members who recently deployed to Iraq reported difficulties with…

will strictly follow all rules established by the Child Online Profile Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 by ensuring the parents of all users under the age of 13 are notified as to his/her child’s use of the site. Also, due to the potential medical issues that could arise from interaction with professional councilors and psychologists all guidelines as established by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996. To further protect our users, “Time Out” will not collect…

writing which is a form of expressive arts therapy. Consistent health improvements have been noted in individuals when they write about upsetting experiences over time. Nearly 30% of individuals who live through traumatic experiences develop PTSD (Pennebaker & Chung, 2011). Pennebaker and Chung (2011) recognized that when thoughts and feelings in regard to a traumatic experience are transferred into language, mental and physical health will generally…

Firstly, I would like to say about my practicum experience done at the YMCA is that I am enormously grateful for the opportunity. Nearly a decade ago, I decided to pursue my lifelong dream of getting a degree and finding a more meaningful career, one that would complement my pursuit to live a more purposeful life. My route to this point in my education has been an arduous journey at times, however, it has been the most substantial, rewarding, and revealing endeavor that I have commenced thus…

Deaf Culture In the United States there are approximately 36 million individuals with who have hearing loss to some degree and of these, and an estimated 500,000 are culturally Deaf and part of the Deaf community (Fileccia, 2011). Deaf, with a capital D refer to individuals who consider themselves part of the Deaf community culturally, whereas deaf refers to a condition in which one lacks the ability to hear. Deaf culture is similar to any other culture in that it can be characterized by certain…

Without the intervention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), this transaction would have gone through. Because of the financial impact and the severity of the damage these acts may cause, the United States Congress approved the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 to deter both espionage and other IT sabotage acts. Although there has been a Vulnerability of IT Infrastructures 8 significant decrease in the annual cost of information theft fraud from $56 billion in 2002 to $37 billion in 2010,…