The rules and regulations, which come under HIPAA, will be under two basic sub-divisions namely privacy and security. According to these, all the possible threats to the system need to be properly identified and determined and the loopholes and vulnerable areas in the system also need to be identified. Proper methods to take care of these vulnerable areas should be devised and the required rules and regulations as well as policies should be implemented which will help in achieving this goal. There is no restriction regarding making use of an EMR or electronic medical record in any kind of computer or software, which comes under HIPAA. But you need to make sure that the data which has been stored on your computer is completely safe and that it cannot be stolen easily and you should also make sure that the database which contains the medical information regarding patients is completely secure and that no one can simply log onto the database. Enough backups should be created for the information, which has been stored so that it can be used in case the hard drive crashes. You should also make sure that the internal network, which contains all the medical information regarding ...