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Topic: Hot Topics in Health Care Privacy

Health care privacy is in the news almost every day, as our health care system navigates changes in technology, new business models and the implications of COVID-19. This session will focus on some of the key developments relating to health care privacy. This will include:

• Developments of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule;
• Emerging issues for “non-HIPAA” health data;
• The current debate about health care in state, national and international privacy legislation; and
• The impact of COVID-19 on the health care privacy debate.

Presentation Slides

Speaker Bio:

Kirk J. Nahra
Partner, Co-Chair Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice, WilmerHale (Washington, D.C.)

Kirk J.  Nahra is a partner with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in privacy and information security litigation and counseling, along with a variety of health care and compliance issues. He is co-chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice.  He assists companies in a wide range of industries in analyzing and implementing the requirements of privacy and security laws across the country and internationally.  He provides advice on data breaches, enforcement actions, contract negotiations, business strategy, research and de-identification issues and privacy, data security and cybersecurity compliance.  He advises companies in virtually all industries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.  He also works with insurers and health care industry participants in developing compliance programs and defending against government investigations into their practices.
 
He teaches privacy issues at several law schools, including serving as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Maine. In addition, he currently serves as a fellow with the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis and as a fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.
 
Mr. Nahra received his law degree from Harvard Law School, Cum Laude, and his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.  Mr. Nahra is an active author and lecturer on a broad variety of privacy and information security topics, along with other health care, compliance and anti-fraud issues.  
 
Follow him on Twitter @kirkjnahrawork