Introduction [T]he HIPAA privacy rule will improve the quality of care and access to care by fostering patient trust and confidence in the health care system. People will be encouraged to more fully participate in their own care, and . . . [o]nce fully. . . implemented, we believe the HIPAA privacy regulation will improve…
“You must first change the way people think.” That was the wisdom passed to a representative of the Washoe Tribe by an indigenous Buryat monk from the Russian state Buryatia, discussing how to protect Lake Baikal and the lands and natural resources of cultural importance to the indigenous people that region in southern Siberia.
