As a Medicare provider, your practice is required to designate a HIPAA Compliance Officer – and now, it’s more important than ever.
In recent years, significant surges in PHI breaches (including cyberattacks) have driven federal and state government regulators to add a variety of new HIPAA laws, increase OCR audits, and strengthen violation enforcement in 2026.
Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must take action right now to ensure your practice is ready to combat telemedicine, the 21st Century Cures Act (Information Blocking), Right of Access, Care Coordination, texting, emailing, Information Sharing, Notice of Privacy Practices, and business associate rule changes, updates, and enforcements.
Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must master these complex rule additions and updates, which is no easy task – unless they have help from someone who knows how.
Help is available from HIPAA expert Brian L Tuttle, CPHIT, CHP, CHA, CBRA, CISSP, CCNA. Brian is presenting a 60-minute online training that will walk you through HIPAA rule additions and changes that pose the highest risk to your practice. Bottom line, Brian will show you how to bulletproof your HIPAA compliance now that audits are increasing and enforcement is intensifying.
Learning Objectives
- Don’t let new Patient’s Right to Access requirements lead to HIPAA violation penalties
- Avoid lawsuits for releasing patient records incorrectly (know when a valid patient signature isn’t enough)
- Unearth when a HIPAA subpoena isn’t sufficient to release medical records
- Ensure your mobile device policy (email/text) really protects your practice
- Pin down when state laws take precedence over federal HIPAA regulations
- Avoid HIPAA penalties because your vendor contracts aren’t sufficient
- Stop easy-to-make telemedicine HIPAA errors that can get you into trouble
- Document HIPAA Compliance Officer duties to head off avoidable penalties
- Head off care coordination HIPAA mistakes that will get you audited
- And so much more…
Why Should You Attend
Your practice faces an enormous number of HIPAA issues and risks in 2026. Especially now that HIPAA HITECH is fully implemented and the government is no longer using enforcement kid gloves.
HIPAA was once a rarely enforced law, but that has changed. Don’t risk HIPAA penalties as much as $50,000 for each violation. Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must sign up for this online training with HIPAA expert Brian Tuttle to fully protect your practice.
Who Should Attend
- Practice managers
- Business associates (billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys, etc.)
- MD’s and other medical professionals
Speaker
Brian L Tuttle, CPHIT, CHP, CHA, CBRA, CISSP, CCNA
Brian L Tuttle is a Certified Professional in Health IT (CPHIT), Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP), Certified HIPAA Administrator (CHA), Certified Business Resilience Auditor (CBRA), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) with over 22 years of experience in Health IT and Compliance Consulting.
With vast experience in health IT systems (i.e. practice management, EHR systems, imaging, transcription, medical messaging, etc.) as well as over 22 years’ experience in standard Health IT with multiple certifications and hands-on knowledge, Brian serves as compliance consultant and has conducted onsite and remote risk assessments for over 1000 medical practices, hospitals, health departments, insurance plans, and business associates throughout the United States.
In addition, Mr. Tuttle has served in multiple litigated court cases, serving as an expert witness offering input related to best practices and requirements for securing and providing patient access to protected health information. Mr. Tuttle has also worked directly with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), both in defending covered entities and business associates as well as being asked by the Federal government to audit covered entities and business associates on behalf of the OCR.
Almost all of Brian’s clients are earned by referral with little or no advertising.
Brian is well known and highly regarded in medical circles throughout the United
