Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit – Early Bird Discount Ends 2/3

By | January 30, 2023
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The National HIPAA Summit is the leading forum on healthcare EDI, privacy, breach notification, confidentiality, data security, and HIPAA compliance, and the deadline for registration for the Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit is fast approaching. The event provides a tremendous opportunity for learning through HIPAA workforce training sessions and keynote speeches from top government officials and leading industry professionals. Attendees will gain valuable insights into health information privacy, healthcare cybersecurity, HIPAA enforcement, and a wealth of information to help them maintain HIPAA compliance and take healthcare data privacy and security to the next level.

This year, the HIPAA Summit is being co-chaired by:

  • Adam Greene, JD, MPH – Partner and Co-chair, Health Information & HIPAA Practice, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist, Office for Civil Rights, HHS, Washington, DC
  • Kirk J. Nahra, JD – Partner and Co-chair of the Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Wilmer Hale, Adjunct Professor, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
  • Iliana Peters, JD, LLM – Shareholder, Polsinelli, Former Acting Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
  • Robert M. Tennant, MA – Vice President, Federal Affairs, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); Former Director, HIT Policy, Medical Group Management Association; Washington, DC

Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit – March 7-10, 2023

The Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit runs March 7-10, 2023, and is split into several mini-summit groups. These groups cover privacy and HIPAA compliance best practices, HIPAA breach trends, and HIPAA enforcement initiatives and breach trends. This year summit groups covering post-Dobbs reproductive health information privacy, Privacy risks from website tracking technologies, current and emerging security risks, medical and wearable device cybersecurity, incident response and breach notification best practices, privacy and security in the metaverse, business associate compliance and risk management, lessons learned from healthcare ransomware attacks, and more.

Government Keynote Speakers

  • Nicholas Heesters, MEng, JD, CIPP – Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Philadelphia, PA
  • Melanie Fontes Rainer, MSME, JD – Director, Office for Civil Rights, HHS; Former Senior Advisor, Healthcare to Attorney General, CA DOJ; Former Chief of Staff, Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
  • Micky Tripathi, MPP, PhD – National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
  • Elisa K. Jillson, JD – Counsel to the Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC

Keynote Speakers

  • Patrice Ettinger, JD, CIPP/US – Chief Privacy Officer, Pfizer; Past Chair, International Association of Privacy Professionals; Former Chief Privacy Officer, Avon, New York, NY
  • Sally Greenberg – Executive Director, National Consumers League; Former Senior Product Safety Counsel, Consumers Union; Former Eastern States Civil Rights Counsel, Anti-Defamation League, Washington, DC
  • Trevor Hughes, JD, CIPP – President and Chief Executive Officer, International Association of Privacy Professionals; Former Executive Director, Network Advertising Initiative and Email Sender and Provider Coalition, Boston, MA
  • Walter E. Johnson, MS, CCEP, CCEP-I, CHC, CHPC – Assistant Privacy Officer, Inova Health System; President, Health Care Compliance Association, Washington, DC
  • Deven McGraw, JD, MPH, LLM – Cofounder and Lead, Data Stewardship & Data Sharing, Invitae; Former Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, OCR, HHS, Redwood City, CA
  • Faith Myers, JD – Chief Privacy Officer & Vice President, Global Privacy, McKesson; Chief Privacy Officer & Senior Vice President, Compliance Officer, CoverMyMeds, Smyrna, GA
  • Jules Polonetsky, JD – Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum; Former Chief Privacy Officer, AOL and DoubleClick; Former Consumer Affairs Commissioner, New York City; Former Member, New York State Assembly; Former Legislative Aide, Congressman Charles Schumer, Washington, DC
  • Daniel J. Solove, JD – John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Founder, TeachPrivacy; Author, Understanding Privacy; Information Privacy Law The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet and The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, Washington, DC
  • Gerry Zack, MBA, CPA, CFE, CIA, CRMA – Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE); Former Chair, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Minneapolis, MN

On Tuesday, February 28, 2023, there is an opportunity for professional certification preconference certified cyber security architect (CCSA) training (separate registration required). This will be followed by the preconference basic training day on March 2, 2023. The pre-conference basic training day is included in the basic HIPAA Summit registration and includes 8 training sessions, followed by a HIPAA Workforce Training Faculty Q&A.

2023 HIPAA Summit – HIPAA Workforce Training Sessions

  • HIPAA Privacy Basics – Adam Greene, JD, MPH
  • Breach Notification Rule and HIPAA Enforcement Rule Basics – Iliana Peters, JD, LLM
  • HIPAA Workforce Training 3: HIPAA Security Basics – David Holtzman, JD, CIPP/US/G
  • How to Achieve the Right Balance of Data Privacy and IT Security – Pamela Hrubey, DrPH, CIPM, CIPP/US, CCEP
  • Business Associate Basics – John Haskell, JD
  • Basics of State Privacy and Security Laws and Relationship to Federal Regulation – Sheila Sokolowski, JD
  • The Basics of Information Blocking – Jodi Daniel, JD, MPH
  • HIPAA Administrative Transactions Basics – Robert M. Tennant, MA

The full schedule for the event can be downloaded here – HIPAA Summit Schedule (PDF). The event will be live-streamed, and an archive of the webcast will be made available to registered individuals for several months after the event for workforce training purposes.

Advance registration is required and there are Early Bird Discounts available to HIPAA Journal readers who are able to register for the event before February 3, 2023.

Register for the Virtual 40th National HIPAA Summit Here

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