HIPAA Changes for 2024 and Beyond

This advanced webinar first details an overview of the federal regulatory process of notice and comment rulemaking.  Similar to state processes, federal law gives great power to federal agencies to promulgate new laws as federal regulations through this notice and comment rulemaking.

With the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) already giving notice of proposed rule changes to HIPAA in 2023, this webinar will skim over those proposed changes and let you know where we are in this notice and comment rulemaking process.

Why are these 2023 proposed changes extending into 2024?

The merging of HIPAA security and privacy is tackled next.  The blending of these two requirements seems to make them indistinguishable.

While HIPAA has always required initial and continuing training, the frequency of that training and exactly who it should cover is reviewed.  In addition to healthcare professionals who have access to medical records, students, interns, and others must be trained.  In addition, what about volunteers and employees who don’t have access to medical records – or at least are not supposed to?

HIPAA self-audits, remediation, and implementation of improvements will prevent HIPAA violations and mitigate them if and when they occur.

And when they occur, know best practices for responding to a security incident.

With respect to recent sanctioning cases by HHS, we examine lessons learned from a devastating cyberattack.

In addition to lessons learned, this advanced webinar will go over proposed models of cybersecurity sanction policies intended to support HIPAA compliance.   Yes, they’re telling you to police your own.

Finally, this session concludes with tips and techniques to avoid risk and liability with best practices to anticipate HIPAA changes for 2024.

• Introduction to federal regulatory Process and comment rulemaking
• Overview of proposed HIPAA Privacy Rule changes for 2023
• Why these 2023 changes are extended into 2024
• HIPAA security and privacy what's the difference anymore
• Training your employees on what's really required
• Cybersecurity-why it’s more important now
• Self-audits, remediation, and implementation of improvements
• Best practices for responding to a security incident
• Lessons learned from the most recent cyberattack investigation
• Cybersecurity sanctions policies to support HIPAA compliance

Conclusion: avoiding risk and liability with best practices to anticipate HIPAA changes for 2024 but not yet in effect

The background for this topic is an introduction to HIPAA and guidance on upcoming, proposed changes for 2024.

The Department of Health and Human Services published proposed amendments to HIPAA to further safeguard the privacy of reproductive health care information in 2023.

The proposed amended HIPAA rule has been the subject of numerous public comments. A final rule is not expected until 2024.

In addition, other federal laws are on the horizon for 2024.

Learn the latest on this emerging HIPAA topic as we segue from 2023 to 2024 with these coming updates. Erase the fear, uncertainty, and doubt about tackling the new legal landscape of HIPAA for these proposed 2023 changes now extending into 2024.

Discover what you need to know about how to apply coming HIPAA changes for 2024 and beyond – and deal with those outcomes effectively.

• Healthcare law attorneys
• Licensed healthcare practitioners in private practice in mental health and in physical medicine
• Medical directors of health facilities
• Office managers and medical directors of private medical offices
• Healthcare managers and executives
• Corporate counsel in healthcare
• Healthcare administrators
• University faculty in health care and medical records
• Allied health professionals in graduate-level medical education across the many healthcare professions
• Corporate compliance officers
• Human resource directors and departments