Virtual 43rd National HIPAA Summit April 7-10, 2026
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.
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:
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- 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
Government Keynote Speakers
- Paula M. Stannard, JD – Director, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health & Human Services; Former Senior Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, HHS, Washington, DC
- Nicholas Heesters, MEng, JD, CIPP – Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former VP, Technology Infrastructure, JP Morgan Chase, Philadelphia, PA
- Thomas Keane, MD, MBA – Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and National Coordinator of Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
- Michael Cimmino, MPH – Director, National Standards Group, Office of Healthcare Experience and Interoperability, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Washington, DC
Keynote Speakers
- 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
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