Connecticut medicine 

About: Connecticut medicine is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Poison control. It has an ISSN identifier of 0010-6178. Over the lifetime, 2364 publications have been published receiving 13251 citations.

Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus.

Abstract: The diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is established by history, physical examination, and measurements of serum or plasma glucose concentrations under specific conditions. This disorder represents the final common expression of diverse etiologies which are incompletely understood. The treatable causes of diabetes should be identified, and the appropriate therapy initiated. Distinguishing Type I and Type II diabetes is often useful, but not a necessary prerequisite for initiating therapy. As we begin to understand the underlying causes of diabetes, our emphasis is likely to shift from a diagnosis based on metabolic characteristics to a diagnosis based on etiology.

The care of the patient.

Abstract: It is probably fortunate that systems of education are constantly under the fire of general criticism, for if education were left solely in the hands of teachers the chances are good that it would soon deteriorate. Medical education, however, is less likely to suffer from such stagnation, for whenever the lay public stops criticizing the type of modern doctor, the medical profession itself may be counted on to stir up the stagnant pool and cleanse it of its sedimentary deposit. The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine—or, to put it more bluntly, they are too "scientific" and do not know how to take care of patients.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA): a provider's overview of new privacy regulations.

Abstract: When it enacted The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Congress mandated establishment of privacy regulations covering individual health information. Title II of HIPAA, the Privacy Rule that became effective on April 14, 2001, offers Americans the first-ever set of comprehensive protections against the unintended and/or inappropriate disclosure of personal health information. Provisions of the Privacy Rule and its associated regulations include patient control over the use of health information, patient rights to information on the disclosure policies of the health-care provider, patient rights to review and amend one's medical information, standards for limiting the scope of data disclosed to other health-care providers, and penalties for noncompliance with the law. This paper presents a summary of the need for protection of personal health information and an overview of the provisions of this legislative foundation for protecting personal health records--the HIPAA Privacy Rule.