HIPAA is Unsettled – What are the Safe Compliance Strategies for 2025?

Understand the controversies around HIPAA Privacy & Security Rules, the anxieties & uncertainties about the Trump administration’s policies.

Course Overview

HHS/OCR modified the HIPAA Privacy Rule and proposed extensive changes to the HIPAA Security Rule late in the Biden administration. However, Privacy Rule protections for reproductive health and proposed Security Rule modifications are likely targets for restriction by the Trump administration.

HIPAA-regulated entities are in a difficult situation. This webinar briefly reviews the Privacy Rule modification, proposed Security Rule modifications, and controversies surrounding both. Then, it explains strategies for essential HIPAA compliance to protect HIPAA-regulated entities and the PHI they maintain, transmit, or receive.

Areas Covered

1. HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules as of January 20, 2025

• Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
• Safeguards – Administrative, physical, and technical
• Policies, procedures, and documentation requirements
• Enforcement and penalties for noncompliance

2. The pending Security Rule modifications

3. Probable and possible restrictive actions by the Trump administration

4. Reason-based strategies for HIPAA-regulated entities to navigate this uncertain tim

Why Should you Attend?

This webinar will help you understand current, acute controversies regarding HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and review some basic compliance strategies to protect your organization until issues are more settled.

Note: Space is limited to 15 participants for a high-value learning experience, so register today!

Who Should Attend?

• Executive Management – all Covered Entities
• Compliance Committee – Covered Entity Board of Trustees
• Practice Managers – Covered Entities
• Chief Compliance Officer – all Covered Entities
• HIPAA Compliance Officials – Privacy and Security
• Covered Entity Owners and Senior Management
• Attorneys for Covered Entities – In-house and Outside Counsel
• Medical Record storage and retrieval vendors
• Coding, billing, and payment vendors
• Health Care Compliance Consultants
• Information Technology vendors
• Law firms

About the Instructor

Paul R. Hales, J.D., explains health information privacy and security law clearly in plain language. He is an attorney licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, a graduate of Columbia University Law School, and a Senior Counselor of the Missouri Bar. Paul manages an international HIPAA privacy and security practice based in St. Louis. He wrote all content in The HIPAA E-Tool®, an Internet-based, complete HIPAA compliance solution with separate editions for Covered Entities, Business Associates, Health Plans, and Third Party Administrators.

Refund policy

Attendees may cancel up to two working days prior to the course start date and the refund will be processed within two working days.

We will process/provide a refund if the webinar is canceled. Refunds will not be given to participants who do not show up for the webinar. On-demand Recordings can be requested in exchange. Webinar may be canceled due to lack of enrollment or unavoidable factors. Attendees will be notified 24 hours in advance if a cancellation occurs. Substitutions can happen at any time.

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