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FREE Webinar Tomorrow: How to Complete Your Annual HIPAA Risk Assessment

Posted by Steve Alder

HIPAA Risk AssessmentIn 2025, 95% of OCR HIPAA fines cited missing or deficient HIPAA risk assessments as a core basis for enforcement.

HIPAA risk assessments are expected at least annually, and if you haven’t completed one yet this year, now is the time.

That’s why we’re strongly suggesting you attend Compliancy Group’s most popular annual webinar, How to Complete your Annual HIPAA Risk Assessment, on February 19, from 1–2 pm ET.

Practical Guidance for Real-World Compliance

Whether you’re new to HIPAA risk assessments or refining your approach, you’ll gain insights you can actually use and hear perspectives from others facing similar realities.

Webinar attendees will learn:

  • Why HIPAA risk assessments break down and how to avoid it.
  • What regulators actually expect.
  • How to identify and prioritize real risk.
  • How to stay compliant year over year through training, remediation, and ongoing risk management.

Why Attend?

HIPAA risk assessments are one of the most misunderstood and dreaded parts of HIPAA compliance. They’re time-consuming. They feel overwhelming. And many organizations aren’t confident they’re doing them correctly.

You may be doing all the right things with training and policies, but avoiding or rushing a risk assessment can leave serious gaps that regulators will scrutinize. Some 95% of HIPAA OCR fines in 2025 had missing or deficient HIPAA risk assessments as the core legal basis for enforcement.

This session is designed as more than a webinar; it’s a gathering place for people navigating the same challenges. A space to learn, share perspectives, and walk away with practical clarity.

Reserve your seat today and learn how to break risk assessment into manageable steps, including critical employee training, remediation, and ongoing risk management that comes after.

WEBINAR DETAILS

How to Complete Your Annual HIPAA Risk Assessment: Practical Guidance for Real-World Compliance

  Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
  Time: 1:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM GMT
                        Format: Live webinar (with practical guidance)

 

Speaker: Liam Degnan, Director, Solutions Engineering

Liam Degnan Compliancy GroupLiam Degnan brings more than eight years of experience in risk management, SaaS sales, and healthcare compliance. 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 healthcare compliance regulations.

 

 

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Cyber Security for Healthcare: USA Summit

Posted by Ian

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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Virtual 43rd National HIPAA Summit – April 7-10, 2026

Posted by HIPAA Journal

The National HIPAA Summit, a leading forum on healthcare EDI, privacy, cybersecurity, and HIPAA compliance, will be hosting the Virtual 43rd National HIPAA Summit on April 7, 2026, through April 10, 2026, with professional certification and HIPAA Summit Workforce Training sessions running before the event.

There is an early bird discount to readers of The HIPAA Journal who sign up for the event before December 12, 2025.

HIPAA Summit 2026

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.

The HIPAA Summit runs from Tuesday, April 7, 2026, through Friday, April 10, 2026, and includes a preconference training program with an expanded curriculum. The training program kicks off on March 11, 2026, with AI Cyber Risk Professional (aiCRP) Training and the Professional Certification Exam with Uday Pabrai, MSEE, CMMC.

Training sessions will be held on the three Wednesdays before the event:

  • HIPAA Workforce Basic Privacy Training on March 18, 2026, with Adam Greene, JD
  • HIPAA Workforce Basic Security/Breach Training on March 26, 2026, with Illiana Peters, JD
  • HIPAA Summit Workforce Training: HIPAA transactions, Operating Rules, and Critical Healthcare Data Exchange Issues with Nancy W. Spector, BSN, MSc.

Employers will be able to assign specific video sessions from these training events to allow members of the workforce to complete the training over time.

HIPAA Summit Co-Chairs

  • Erik Decker, MS – Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Intermountain Healthcare; Former Chair, Cybersecurity Working Group, Chicago, IL
  • 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
  • Nancy W. Spector, BSN, MSc – Senior Director of Federal Affairs, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI); Former Coding and HIT Advocacy Director, American Medical Association, Harrisburg, PA

 Keynote Speakers

  • Michael Cimmino, MPH – Director, National Standards Group, Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
  • Gregory T. Garcia – Executive Director, Cybersecurity Working Group, Health Sector Coordinating Council; Former Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC
  • Samantha Jacques, PhD, FACHE, AAMIF – Vice President, Clinical Engineering, McLaren Health Care; Vice Chair, Health Sector Coordinating Council, Cybersecurity, Detroit, MI
  • Deven McGraw, JD, MPH, LLM – Chief Regulatory & Privacy Officer, Citizen Health; Cofounder and Lead, Data Stewardship & Data Sharing, Invitae; Former Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, HHS Office for Civil Rights; Former Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Redwood City, CA
  • Jules Polonetsky, JD – Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum; Former Chief Privacy Officer, SVP Consumer Advocacy, AOL; Former Chief Privacy Officer, DoubleClick; Former Commissioner, New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection; Former Member, New York State, Potomac, MD
  • Daniel J. Solove, JD  – John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Founder, TeachPrivacy; Author, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, Washington, DC

Click Here to Register for the Event

Early Bird Discount for Registrations Before December 12, 2025

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