HIPAA is the acronym for the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996. This is the first federal act, which has been passed which has been designed to ensure the protection of the privacy of the personal medical information of the patient. Privacy regulations have been created in order to ensure that the electronic medical records of the patient have been protected in the right manner and kept confidential from the public. It is becoming more and more difficult for health care companies to ensure that they abide by all the legal rules and regulations like HIPAA. These rules make sure that the standards and benchmarks regarding all kinds of electronic transactions with medical information are followed in the right manner. Nowadays it is becoming more and more difficult of find software, which has been prepared in compliance with all the rules and regulations, which come under HIPAA. Such software is very expensive to procure especially for any small-scale medical office. There are many large scale medical offices and medical billing houses which have already adopted some strong security measures and the implementation of the rules and regulations which come under HIPAA will not mean any kind of dramatic change ...