Healthcare privacy and data security remain one of the major policy and operations issues in American healthcare. Current health information technology initiatives raise new and complex healthcare privacy and security issues. HIPAA Compliance is not only complex, but also extremely costly as healthcare moves to electronic data interchange and the Internet and beyond to a variety of new health information technology initiatives. The HIPAA Summit conference series provides a road map to understanding the complex requirements of federal and state law and illuminates strategies for compliance.

The Summit will provide the most up-to-date and sophisticated information on the status and construction of the HIPAA regulations through the presentations of the leading HIPAA regulators from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office for Civil Rights. The Summit will focus on training HIPAA privacy and security professionals for professional certification.