Annual HIPAA Awareness Update Overview
The Annual HIPAA Awareness Update Briefing for 2025–2026 provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as it enters 2026, focusing on regulatory developments, enforcement actions, cybersecurity threats, incident response practices, and both federal and state privacy updates.
The briefing is intended to help organizations understand how HIPAA is being interpreted and applied in today’s compliance environment, including what the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) expects from covered entities and business associates. Rather than simply reviewing the written rules, the course emphasizes real-world enforcement actions, breach trends such as ransomware, and operational failures that have resulted in significant penalties. It also reviews how artificial intelligence is influencing both attackers and defenders in the healthcare privacy landscape, and outlines essential preparation strategies for organizational audits and self-assessments.
2025 Annual HIPAA Certification CE Credit Course Overview
The curriculum includes a retrospective analysis of HIPAA in 2025, examining enforcement trends, fines and penalties, active threats faced by organizations, and mitigation strategies to strengthen privacy and security practices. It details state and federal regulatory updates that were published or proposed in 2025, differentiating between finalized changes and those still pending, and discusses preemption issues where state privacy laws intersect with HIPAA requirements. The briefing also includes incident response scenarios that illustrate common attack vectors such as phishing and credential theft, with lessons learned and practical prevention strategies. A dedicated section explores the intersection of HIPAA and artificial intelligence, addressing compliance considerations associated with adopting AI technologies in healthcare operations. To prepare organizations for when the OCR audits, the course outlines the annual self-audit process, ongoing monitoring requirements, and audit readiness tactics. Designed for compliance professionals, privacy officers, and staff responsible for handling protected health information (PHI), this update ensures that participants understand their compliance obligations and recognize common violations under current HIPAA enforcement conditions.
- Section 1: HIPAA 2025: A review of Fines and Penalties
- Section 2: HIPAA 2025: Active Threats, Controls and Mitigation Strategies
- Section 3: HIPAA 2025: Updates for State and Federal Regulations: Published and Proposed
- Section 4: HIPAA 2025: Incident Response Scenarios: Targets, Execution, Signals and Prevention Strategies
- Section 5: HIPAA 2025 and Artificial Intelligence: Help or Hindrance
- Section 6: HIPAA 2025: The Annual Update Cycle and What you must be doing to be ready for when OCR comes to call.
- Section 7: OCR HIPAA Audits – Phase 3
- Section 8: Special Topics and Weblinks
Total Course Duration: 1 hour 47 Minutes
Number of Total Slides: 80
Course valid for: 2 months from receiving the login details. You will not have access to online content after you complete the course.
Type of License: One user license cannot be transferred after login is assigned.
Cost: $138 per employee
Certificate for Continuing Education Credits:
Students can buy a CE credit certificate for this course at registration. After completing the course, you will receive one CE credit through the Approved Provider of the California Board of Registered Nursing.
This Annual HIPAA Awareness Update helps ensure employees understand their compliance obligations and recognize common HIPAA violations.
Please contact us for more information at Bob@hipaatraining.net or call (515) 865-4591.