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Anticipated Changes to HIPAA in 2026

Presented by Mark R Brengelman
Duration - 60 Minutes

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Description

Anticipated HIPAA Changes in 2026: Security Rule Modernization & OCR Enforcement Update

The regulatory landscape for healthcare privacy and cybersecurity is entering a period of significant transformation. Anticipated HIPAA changes in 2026 signal a shift toward more prescriptive technical safeguards, expanded enforcement authority, and heightened expectations for demonstrable security controls.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its enforcement arm, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), have confirmed that long-planned modernization of the HIPAA Security Rule remains on track for finalization in 2026. Unlike the flexible, risk-based framework introduced in 2003, the proposed rule introduces mandatory technical standards designed to address today’s escalating cyber threat environment.

Healthcare organizations, covered entities, and business associates should prepare for stricter cybersecurity mandates, expanded enforcement activity, and significantly reduced regulatory discretion.

Areas Covered

  • Regulatory Context: Why Significant HIPAA Changes Are Coming in 2026
  • Why These Changes Matter for Daily Clinical Practice
  • New Expectations Under the Modernized HIPAA Security Rule
  • HIPAA Security Rule Modernization – What Will Change: Legal Requirements Practitioners Must Know
  • Expanded Enforcement Authority Under 42 C.F.R. Part 2: OCR’s Heightened Focus on Individual Responsibility
  • Cybersecurity and Risk Analysis Expectations and Ransomware Response
  • Practical Compliance Steps for 2026: Practitioners to Reduce Legal Risk.

Background

Upcoming changes to HIPAA security and privacy guidelines for healthcare practices and practitioners. Changes include stricter enforcement, stricter ransom and malware attack prevention, and stricter confidentiality measures.

Why Should You Attend

Healthcare practitioners and compliance leaders must understand how anticipated HIPAA changes in 2026 will impact daily operations, cybersecurity obligations, and regulatory exposure. This webinar provides practical guidance to help organizations prepare for the modernization of the HIPAA Security Rule and expanded OCR enforcement authority.

Who Should Attend

  • Healthcare practitioners
  • Practice administrators
  • Compliance officers
  • Health IT and security leaders
  • Business associates handling protected health information (PHI).

Speaker

Mark R Brengelman

Mark holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Philosophy from Emory University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky.

Retiring as an Assistant Attorney General, he now represents:

  • Healthcare professionals
  • Two government healthcare licensure boards
  • A government ethics commission
  • Parents and kids in confidential child abuse and neglect cases, termination of parental rights, and adoption proceedings

Mark is a frequent continuing education presenter including national organizations around the country.  He helps his clients navigate the law and ethics and make the rules understandable as applied to them.

Mark has worked for all three branches of government.