Overview
This 90-minute webinar will be addressing how practice/business managers (or compliance offers) 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 look out for.
We will be discussing current breaches, most common breaches, telemedicine, texting, emailing, and the OCR audit process.
There's 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 in 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.
Why should you Attend
Are you prepared for the major overhaul with 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 2022-2024 than the entire history of this regulation combined, hence, the government is taking major actions to strengthen these regulations (especially relating to 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 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 27th, 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).
Areas Covered in the Session
- 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
- 21st 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
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
