The exams are carefully constructed to align with and assess the knowledge and skills set forth in the NYS learning standards... and to determine whether schools, districts and the State meet the required progress targets specified in the NYS accountability system and in No Child Left Behind".
All databases have been de-identified and do not contain protected health information as specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (, accessed on Aug/04/2004).
2. Non-anonymous surveys, by definition, contain protected health information (PHI) as specified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and thus require informed consent.
A number of investigators have developed methods for automatically de-identifying EHR documents by removing PHI, as specified in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act "Safe Harbor" method.
In doing so, the study seeks to highlight accountability as a process that enacts a specified promise.
Based on literature covering financial control, public sector management reform, and governance, Brinkerhoff specifies three types of accountability required for holding health actors to account [ 7].
Focusing on the stated purposes, specified actors, and installed mechanisms of public participation and government accountability, an institutional analysis was conducted on the national land use regulations and policies enacted between 1947 and 2012.
Finally, to ensure accountability, processes of documentation and reporting should be specified.
Legislation mandates who has oversight of health research – which ministry, for instance, or which council – thus specifying ownership and providing accountability.
Accountability involves " holding public officials/service providers answerable for processes and outcomes and imposing sanctions if specified outcomes are not delivered" [ 42].
When accountability of Finnish and Greek websites was compared, only one statistically significant difference was found: authorship was specified more often in Greek than Finnish websites (47% vs. 21%, p =.04) (Table 3).
