Health care provider knows the importance of HIPAA act enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. HIPAA (Health Insurance portability and Accountability act) emphasizes on information security of the patient.

Not only HIPAA, but the healthcare providers should also consider other privacy and information security rules while choosing EMR software. Providers should make sure that the EMR systems installed for them should take care of all the privacy and information security issues.

Some important points, providers should take care regarding privacy and information securities are