Sentences with phrase «decisions about individual»

We clarify that the rights and authorities of a personal representative under this rule are limited to protected health information relevant to the rights of the person to make decisions about an individual under other law.

As a result, it said, consumer reporting agencies might not be able to compile complete consumer reports, thus potentially creating an inaccurate picture of a consumer's credit history that could be used to make future credit decisions about the individual.

In the proposed rule, we defined designated record set as «a group of records under the control of a covered entity from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual and which is used by the covered entity to make decisions about the individual.»

They argued that for purposes of amendment, this definition should be limited to information used to make medical or treatment decisions about the individual.

Backtesting on Fidelity.com is provided for educational purposes and as an example only, and should not be used or relied upon to make decisions about your individual situation.

That data drives instructional decisions about individual student programming.»

Even if a correlation is «statistically significant,» it is possible that the correlation is the result of bias, and that the relationship is so weak that it is not meaningful in practice, especially when the goal is to make high - stakes decisions about individual teachers.

The research base is currently insufficient to support the use of VAM for high - stakes decisions about individual teachers or schools.

However, the report notes that value - added estimates should never be used as the sole basis for informing high - stakes decisions about individual teachers.

People are very scared that administrators would start making serious decisions about individual teachers just based on that information — and nobody thinks that should be done.

Using data from these assessments, schools now make decisions about individual students, groups of students, instructional programs, resource allocation, and more.

The lesson of the NRC - NAEd report is that even though value - added methodologies offer a number of advantages over other approaches that consider test - score data in a vacuum, policymakers need to move carefully in adopting any approach — value - added or otherwise — in making important decisions about individual teachers.

Testing experts agree that using a single test score to make important decisions about individual students (such as promotion, retention or access to a particular program (e.g., gifted and talented programs] is indefensible.

The second means through which value - added measures may be used for improvement is by providing information for making better human resource decisions about individual teachers.

It can help people reach better informed decisions about individual children's school placements and formulate better informed evaluations of provision at local and national levels.

As I stated earlier, we believe that local practitioners are best placed to make decisions about individual care, and that GPs are often most in touch with the health needs of their local populations.

A fair algorithm, the team says, is one that makes the same decision about an individual regardless of demographic background.

What professional development opportunities are available within your district that could help prepare educators to analyze and interpret student data to make decisions about individuals and also groups of students?

Through those conversations, you will be able to make a good decision about the individual you want to use.

«For us it's really not about statistics and we don't want statistics to drive the decision about individual animal.

This may include certain quality assessment or improvement records, patient safety activity records, or business planning, development, and management records that are used for business decisions more generally rather than to make decisions about individuals.

For example, while protected health information used for peer review and quality assurance activities typically would not be used to make decisions about individuals, and, thus, typically would not be part of a designated record set, we can not say that this is true in all cases.

For example, information systems that are used for quality control or peer review analyses may not be used to make decisions about individuals.

This category includes records that are used to make decisions about any individuals, whether or not the records have been used to make a decision about the particular individual requesting access.

In addition to these records, designated record sets include any other group of records that are used, in whole or in part, by or for a covered entity to make decisions about individuals.

We therefore define «designated record set» to include certain categories of records (a provider's medical record and billing record, the enrollment records, and certain other records maintained by a health plan) that are normally used, and are reasonably likely to be used, to make decisions about individuals.

Under the revised definition, individuals have a right of access to any protected health information that is used, in whole or in part, to make decisions about individuals.

For example, a covered entity must make reasonable efforts to inform a business associate that uses protected health information to make decisions about individuals about amendments to protected health information used for such decisions.

We also add a category of other records that are, in fact, used, in whole or in part, to make decisions about individuals.

However, the study assumed broader access than provided in the rule, which requires access only to information in records used to make decisions about individuals, not all records with identifiable information.

We do not require a covered entity to provide access to all individually identifiable health information, because the benefits of access to information not used to make decisions about individuals is limited and is outweighed by the burdens on covered entities of locating, retrieving, and providing access to such information.

For example, a hospital's peer review files that include protected health information about many patients but are used only to improve patient care at the hospital, and not to make decisions about individuals, are not part of that hospital's designated record sets.

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That could be through a decision to stop funding cost - sharing - reduction payments, which help offset costs for insurers, not enforcing the individual mandate, or not doing outreach to inform Americans about their health insurance options.

And I think that's individual decision that every brand has to make when thinking about how it's best for their business, but also what's best for what their culture represents and what they want to stand for in the marketplace.

Mr. Redstone, who controls about 80 percent of the company, said in a statement in May that decisions over succession would be made by the board, not an individual, and that such decisions had not yet been made.

One of the things I've done in my work is kind of show the hypocrisy of progressive people who say they believe in inequality, but when it comes to their individual choices about where they're going to live and where they're going to send their children, they make very different decisions, and I just didn't want to do that.

This retrospective summarizes key models that make psychology - based assumptions about: individual preferences; individual beliefs; and, the process by which individuals make decisions.

We also believe that individuals should be allowed to make their own decisions about their money.

The investigation into Yahoo is continuing and the SEC has yet to make a decision about the role or culpability of individuals, the SEC said.

But in actuality, the exact experience of the participating groups and individuals could not be determined prior to a decision about the relative weight of the principles they espoused or the institutions within which they functioned.

Present human activity, in other words, reflects a decision about one's place as an individual in the wider world.

Fr Jeremy Fairhead, Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford, provides an extremely useful and sensitive reflection about making decisions, particularly focused on resisting pressures and discerning what is right for the individual.

Although the family physician usually should be the key person in arranging treatment of the mentally ill person, the minister occasionally has an important role in counseling with the family concerning their decision about whether or not to hospitalize the individual against his will.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

You know nothing about the individuals on this board, or their decision - making process.

Whether and, if so, when more local engagement in discourse is required or permitted can itself be a common decision of the wider discourse, because every individual's right to discourse is fulfilled by her or his opportunity to express dissent in the particular association whose common decisions are about the moral permissibility of all specific projects or practices.

As noted earlier, the advantage of introducing individual retirement accounts into the picture is to partially repair the present disconnect between individuals» savings and the political decisions about their eventual Social Security benefits.

[Another early reference in the Talmud speaks of five of Jesus» disciples and recounts their standing before judges who make individual decisions about each one, deciding that they should be executed.

In my view, its quite a leap to go from a prediction about how an individual will respond to a question over the next several hours to the conclusion that God knew every decision of every person who would ever exist before the creation of the world.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.