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| Press Release: Today The Twenty-Sixth National HIPAA Summit Welcomes New OCR Director Roger Severino |  | 
PRESS RELEASE   A Hybrid Conference and Internet Event
 March 29 - 31, 2017
 Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review and Health Affairs
 Onsite at the Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
 Online in Your Own Office or Home Live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
www.HIPAASummit.com Phone: 800-503-7417
 Email: registration@hcconferences.com
 Website: www.HIPAASummit.com
 
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| WELCOME TO THE NEW OCR DIRECTOR ROGER SEVERINO |  | 
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Roger Severino is the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Severino served as Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity at The Heritage Foundation.  Before joining Heritage in 2015, Mr. Severino was a trial attorney for seven years in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division where he enforced the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Title II and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.   He has litigated cases under sex, race, national  origin, religion, disability, and familial status discrimination and served as the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section's E-discovery officer as well as attorney advisor to the fair housing testing program.  Mr. Severino was previously chief operations officer and legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.  Mr. Severino holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, received a master's degree in public policy, with highest distinction, from Carnegie Mellon University, and has a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Southern California, where he was a National Merit Scholar. |  |  
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WASHINGTON DC USA -- HIT/HIPAA UPDATE NEWS SERVICE -- MARCH 29, 2017: The Twenty-Sixth National HIPAA Summit, www.HIPAASummit.com, will be held March 29 - 31, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. The Summit will be offered both onsite and live and archived for 6 months over the Internet. |  
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| KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |  | 
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|  Cora Han, Esq.
 Senior Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC
 |  Deven McGraw, Esq.
 Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Former Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy & Technology, Former Chief Operating Office, National Partnership for Women & Families, Washington, DC
 |  |  Iliana L. Peters, JD, LLM
 Senior Advisor for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement, Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
 |  Malikah "Mikki" Smith, PMP, CISSP, CAP
 Security Branch Chief, Office of the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
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| CO CHAIRS |  | 
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|  William R. Braithwaite, MD, PhD
 "Doctor HIPAA", Braithwaite Consulting, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Former Senior Advisor on Health Information Policy, DHHS, Washington, DC
 |  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
 |  |  Steven S. Lazarus, PhD, CPEHR, CPHIT, CPHIE, CPORA, FHIMSS
 President, Boundary Information Group, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Past Chair, WEDI, Denver, CO
 |  John C. Parmigiani
 President, John C. Parmigiani and Associates, LLC, HIPAA Summit Distinguished Service Award Winner, Former Director of Enterprise Standards, HCFA, Ellicott City, MD
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| FEATURING PLENARY SESSIONS |  | 
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 OCR Policy and Implementation Update
 ONC Privacy and Security Policy Update
 FTC Privacy Enforcement Update
 Healthcare Chief Privacy Officers Best Practices Roundtable
 Healthcare Security Officer Best Practices Roundtable
 Navigating the HIPAA Enforcement under the Trump Administration
 Championing a Culture of Privacy and Security: From Ambivalence to Buy In
 HIPAA's Place In Your Overall Compliance Program
 Preparing for and Responding to an OCR HIPAA Audit
 Business Associates: Do You Have Written Assurances in all the Right Places?
 Privacy Rule Audit for Smaller Clinics and Facilities
 IoT + DDoS = Disruptive Risk. Prepared?
 HIPAA Breach Notification and Crisis Management | 
	
 Ransomware and Cybersecurity Risks in Health Care M&A Transactions
 Privacy and Security: Which One Comes First
 Ensuring HIT Interoperability under the 21st Century Cures Act
 When Digital Health and Policy Collide
 HIPAA Privacy and Medical Research: Opportunities and Challenges
 Information Governance: the Next Evolution of Privacy and Security
 Operating Rules, Health Plan Identifier, ICD-10 and Health Plan Certification
 ACA Operating Rules Update
 Plans for X12 Standards Version 7030
 HIPAA Administrative Simplification Opportunities for Physician Practices
 Administrative Simplification in the World of Value Based Purchasing – A California Study Using Encounter Data
 Value Based Payment and the HIPAA Standard Transactions and Operating Rules |  |  |  
| AND A PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION PRECONFERENCE |  | 
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 CERTIFIES Cyber Security Architect (CCSASM) Training |  |  |  |  
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| FEATURED FACULTY |  | 
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|  Lisa J. Acevedo, Esq.
 Shareholder, Polsinelli, Chicago, IL
 |  Margret Amatayakul, MBA, RHIA, CPEHR, CPHIT, CPHIE, CPORA, CHPS, FHIMSS
 President, Margret\A Consulting, LLC, Adjunct Faculty in Health Informatics, College of St. Scholastica, Schaumburg, IL
 |  Madhu Annadata, MS, MBA
 Director, Division of National Standard, Program Management & National Standards Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
 |  |  Nickie Braxton, MPH, CHC
 Compliance and Privacy Officer, Boston Medical Center, Former Compliance Officer & Privacy Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Former Compliance Officer, Hartford HeatlhCare, Boston, MA
 |  Janelle Burns, JD, CHPS
 President, Burns Consulting, Inc., Former Corporate Privacy and Security Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Memphis, TN
 |  April Carlson, MBA
 Privacy Officer, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
 |  |  Bob Chaput, CISSP, HCISPP, CRISC, CIPP/US
 Chief Executive Officer, Clearwater Compliance, Former Vice President, Technology Operations, GE Information Services, Nashville, TN
 |  Jodi G. Daniel, JD, MPH
 Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC
 |  Shreehari Desikan, MBA
 Founder and Chief Executive Officer, dataphilic.io, Former Program Manager, Privacy, Motorola, San Francisco, CA
 |  |  Katherine E. Downing, MA, RHIA, CHPS, PMP
 Sr. Director, AHIMA IGAdvisors, Richmond, TX
 |  Eyal Gurion, MBA
 Director, Strategic Initiatives, Integrated Healthcare Association, Oakland, CA
 |  Hudson Harris, MBA, JD
 Chief Implementation Officer, ADAPT of America, Inc., Ballwin, MO
 |  |  David Holtzman, JD, CIPP
 Vice President, Compliance, CynergisTek, Inc., Former Senior Adviser for HIT and the HIPAA Security Rule, Office for Civil Rights, HHS, Austin, TX
 |  David Kibbe, MD, MBA
 President and CEO, Co-founder, DirectTrust.org, Principal, The Kibbe Group LLC, Senior Advisor, American Academy of Family Physicians, Chair, E31 Health Informatics Technical Committee, ASTM International, Oriental, NC
 |  Gwendolyn Lohse
 Managing Director, CORE, Deputy Director, CAQH, Washington, DC
 |  |  Kirk J. Nahra, Esq.
 Partner, Wiley Rein LLP, Editor, The Privacy Advisor, International Association of Privacy Professionals, Editorial Board, BNA Privacy & Security Law Report, Washington, DC
 |  Uday O. Ali Pabrai, MSEE, CISSP
 Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, ecfirst, (Home of HIPAA Academy), Irvine, CA
 |  Rafe Schoenfeld, CIPP/US
 Executive Director and U.S. Corporate & Investment Bank Privacy Officer, J.P. Morgan, New York, NY
 |  |  Jerry Smith, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSK, CIPT, CPHIMS
 Senior Information Security and Privacy Analyst, University of Utah Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT
 |  Sheetal Sood, CHC, CIPP, CISSP, CISA, CRISC,GSEC, MCSE
 Senior Executive Compliance Officer, Information Governance, NYC Health + Hospitals, Former Chief Privacy Officer and IT Audit Manager, New York City Housing Authority, New York, NY
 |  Merri-Lee Stine
 Manager, Aetna, Vice Chair, ASC X12 Insurance Standards Subcommittee, Allentown, PA
 |  |  Robert M. Tennant, MA
 Director, HIT Policy, Medical Group Management Association, Washington, DC
 |  Judith D. Thompson, Esq.
 Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles, CA
 |  Carol Wanke
 Vice President, Managed Care Operations Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA
 |  |  C.J. Wolf, MD
 Senior Compliance Executive/Advisor, Healthicity, Former Chief Compliance Officer, Merit Medical Systems, Inc., Former Assistant Systemwide Compliance Officer, The University of Texas System, Salt Lake City, UT
 |  Yvonne Wolters
 Privacy Official, Cleveland Clinic, Former Privacy and Security Officer, Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, OH
 |  Thomas Wood
 Associate HIPAA Privacy Rule Officer, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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 |  | FEATURING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION TRAINING |  | 
	
Certified Cyber Security Architect (CCSASM) Professional Certification Training
 
  
 
 |  | CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS |  | Accounting Professionals: Approved for up to 20.0 hours of NASBA CPE credits. 
 Attorneys: Approved for 18.50 Pennsylvania CLE Credits.
 
 Compliance Professionals: Approved for 21.20 Compliance Certification Board CCB credits.
 
 AHIMA: Pending approval for AHIMA credits.
 
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| TWENTY-SIXTH NATIONAL HIPAA SUMMITMarch 29 - 31, 2017
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