Release of Health Information

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Review the 2004 assessment of  The Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records Regulation and the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Implications for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Programs:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. (2004). U.S. Department of Health and Human Service. Retrieved from https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/operations-administration/the_confidentiality_of_alcohol_and_drug_abuse.pdf

Discuss whether you think HIPAA is adequately covering the confidentiality of substance abuse health records.

The Police Working Personality

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A new police recruit is typically introduced to the value-laden subculture of police work a unique socialization process. It is vital to understand this process, because the values and expectations learned through it not only contribute to the nature of many important police issues but also determine how the police view and respond to those issues, particularly integrity and corruption; however, the issue of corruption can be looked at differently. Read the article How the Sandford Police Department Repaired Its Community Relations after the Treyvon Martin (Links to an external site.) case where a police Chief created a change in the culture in a dysfunctional department.

After reading the assignments, lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and viewing the article above, you have a better understanding of the police working personality, police subculture, and ethical and professional duties of a police officer. For this discussion address the following topic:
What did Chief Smith do that changed the department?  Look at your local police department, are there any police integrity issues (look for newspaper articles in your area that relate to police activities)?  How could your police department benefit from Chief Smiths approach?

Normalization

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Discuss Normalization. In your own words, explain what Normalization is. You may use the scenario below to help demonstrate your understanding of normalization rules.
Apply normalization rules. Create an ER diagram to display the third normal form of the data set listed below
Normalization:

A veterinary office collects the following data for every pet that comes in for a service from their office. Determine an ER diagram showing the data set below  that has been normalized.

VETERINARYOFFICE(petName, petType, petBreed, petDOB, ownerName, ownerPhone, ownerEmail, serviceDescription, serviceDate, amountBilled)

Normalization chapter 12 in the book

Issue: Starting with “Whether” type of statement comparing facts with rules but presented in a general term (e.g., “Ivanka” becomes a company or firm, “shoes” become a product, etc.) begging for an answer. Rule/Law/Theory: Please be substantive with what

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Issue: Starting with “Whether” type of statement comparing facts with rules but presented in a general term (e.g., “Ivanka” becomes a company or firm, “shoes” become a product, etc.) begging for an answer.
Rule/Law/Theory: Please be substantive with what the law is about, not just cited as “trade dress infringement law”, etc.
Analysis: Using the law as the “standard” to “measure” with pertinent facts.
Conclusion: reach at your conclusion.