This 90-minute webinar will address how practice/business managers (or compliance officers) need to get their HIPAA house in order as HIPAA HITECH is now fully enforced with bipartisan support.

• It will also address new congressional mandates, and the major changes and updates for 2026 and beyond – both for the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule.  This will also include “proposed” changes to be on the lookout for.
• We will be discussing current breaches, most common breaches, telemedicine, texting, emailing, and the OCR audit process.
• There are an enormous number of issues and risks for covered entities and business associates these days – we will speak to the most common violations and fines, and how to best avoid fines and headaches. 

I will speak on specific experiences from over 23 years of experience working as an outsourced compliance auditor, expert witness on multiple HIPAA cases, and thoroughly explain how patients are now able to get cash remedies for wrongful disclosures of private health information.  
More importantly, I will show you how to limit those risks by simply taking proactive steps and utilizing best practices.

Areas Covered:-

• HIPAA Administrative Simplification Updates (Privacy Rule and Security Rule)
• NPRM’s for the HIPAA Security Rule
• Updates for the HPAA Privacy Rule
• Rights of Access
• Care Coordination
• Information Sharing
• Notice of Privacy Practices
• 21^st Century Cures Act
• Telemedicine (Do’s and Don’ts)
• Fines
• Portable devices
• Texting and Emailing – new guidelines
• New Definition of Protected Health Information
• Real-life audits and litigated cases
• Business associates and the increased burden
• Breach notification
• Risk factors

Why Should You Attend?

Are you prepared for the major overhaul of the HIPAA Security and Privacy Rule for 2026? The Office for Civil Rights is “finally” implementing some badly needed updates for the HIPAA Administrative Simplification (mainly the Security and Privacy Rules).

More breaches of protected health information have occurred from 2022 to 2024 than in the entire history of this regulation combined; hence, the government is taking major actions to strengthen these regulations (especially relating to the security of electronic protected health information).

What other changes (if any) can we expect under the Trump administration and other congressional mandates? 

Join me in this 90-minute webinar to explore what’s new with HIPAA, both from a regulation standpoint (new requirements), enforcement standpoint, and the highest risks for breach.

This once rarely enforced law has changed, and you need to know what’s going on!
Protect your practice or business!  

What changes are being implemented from the OCR’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) submitted on December 27^th, 2024   

What about the major increase in cyber attacks and OCR’s audit program?

State laws are now in place, increasing liability for patient remedies!

What factors might spurn a lawsuit or a HIPAA audit? …are you doing these things?

We will be discussing 2026 changes taking place in Washington with the Health and Human Services regarding the bipartisan-backed enforcement of the HIPAA laws already on the books (as well as some detailed discussions on the audit process), and some current events regarding HIPAA cases (both in courtrooms and from live audits).

Who Will Benefit?

• Practice managers
• Any business associates who work with medical practices or hospitals (i.e., billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys, etc)
• MD’s and other medical professionals.