The HIPAA Journal Event List

Cyber Security for Healthcare: USA Summit

The HealthSec: Cyber Security for Healthcare Summit returns for its 2nd edition in Boston, Massachusetts on June 12th – 13th!

As operations in healthcare and life sciences industries are becoming increasingly digitized and internet-connected, the attack surface is expanding and cybersecurity risks are growing.

In the light of this, healthcare security leaders from across the hospitals & healthcare systems, healthcare equipment and services, medical devices, pharma and biotech industries are preparing to gather at the summit to learn how to protect their sensitive data from cyber attacks.

CPD certified event

This CPD certified event is your chance to unite with cybersecurity leaders from the likes of Abbott, GSK, Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson through interactive sessions, as well as 6+ hours of networking, including seated lunches and a drinks reception.

Over 2 days, you’ll learn how to build resilience, mitigate risks and strengthen your cybersecurity strategy to combat new and ongoing threats through thought leadership talks, in-depth case-studies, panel discussions and roundtables. See list of speakers

Agenda highlights include:

  • A Culture of Shared Responsibility Between HDOs and MDMs: What It Looks Like, and How to Achieve It
  • How to Effectively Address Third Party Risk Management Pain Points in Healthcare
  • Case Study: Surviving a Ransomware Attack -Lessons Learned from the Healthcare Industry
  • Streamlining Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare: How Do We Get There?

For 15% discount on passes, register now using the code “HIPPA” at registration online here.

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FREE WEBINAR: Building a Compliant Workforce

HIPAA Compliance Challenges for Small Medical PracticesTHE CHALLENGE: If an auditor asks for proof of every employee’s training history, policy acknowledgments, incident reports, and exclusion checks—how long would it take you to pull it together? Hours? Days? Weeks?

For most healthcare organizations, workforce compliance is the weakest link in their regulatory armor—scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and filing cabinets. While you’ve invested in clinical protocols and billing safeguards, your people, the very foundation of your compliance program, remain your biggest vulnerability.

This webinar delivers a practical solution: The 5 Pillars Of A Compliant Workforce that transform your people from a compliance risk into your strongest defense.

Healthcare Leaders: Make It Your New Year’s Resolution To Build A Compliant Workforce!

Webinar attendees will learn how to:

  • Train & Track – Get everyone compliant and documented in Q1
  • Centralize Policies – Automate attestations and version control
  • Manage Incidents – Respond, remediate, and document in 5 days
  • Monitor Exclusions – Automate checks so no one slips through
  • Build Accountability – Embed compliance into your culture, not just checklists

Why Attend?

Regulators don’t ask if you’re compliant—they ask you to prove it. This session gives you the roadmap to confidently answer “yes” to every audit question about your workforce.

Perfect for: Compliance Officers, HR Directors, Healthcare Executives, Risk Managers

Walk away with: Actionable resolutions for each pillar, real-world implementation strategies, and the confidence that your workforce is audit-ready—not just on paper, but in practice.

Make 2025 the year you stop firefighting and start proving compliance.


WEBINAR DETAILS

For Healthcare Leaders: Building a Compliant Workforce

October 22nd @ 1PM ET

Speaker: Liam Degnan, Director Solutions Engineering


Don’t let your organization be the next headline. Secure your place by completing the registration form on this page today, and add the date to your calendar.

 

Liam Degnan Compliancy GroupSpeaker: Liam Degnan, Director Solutions Engineering

Liam Degnan has an 8+ year history of experience combining risk management, SaaS sales, and regulatory compliance in the healthcare space. As Compliancy Group’s Senior Solutions Engineer, he advises healthcare decision-makers, healthcare providers, and medical vendors. He speaks on a variety of platforms and topics, with an emphasis on simplifying HIPAA, OSHA, SOC 2 and other general healthcare compliance regulations.

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Early Bird Registration For National HIPAA Summit 2024 Ends 22nd December

The National HIPAA Summit is a leading forum on healthcare EDI, privacy, cybersecurity, and HIPAA compliance.

The 22nd December deadline for early bird registration for the Virtual 41st National HIPAA Summit is fast approaching. You can register as a HIPAA Journal reader also receive $100 off the registration fee by entering “HIPAAJournal” on the registration page.  (This is not a sponsored post or paid sponsorship or affiliate link)

HIPAA Summit

The event provides a tremendous opportunity for learning through HIPAA workforce training sessions and keynote speeches from top government officials and leading industry professionals. You can download a PDF of the HIPAA Summit Agenda here.

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

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
  • J. Ronnie Solomon, JD – Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC.
  • Micky Tripathi, MPP, PhD – National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Washington, DC

 

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