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Health Care Privacy 101 and Beyond (Session 1)
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. (PT) | B-CLE Webcast
0.50 CLE & CPE Credit Available
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Healthcare privacy law is one of the most consequential—and most misunderstood—areas of modern legal practice. Join Kirk Nahra, Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practices at WilmerHale, for a compelling deep dive into healthcare privacy fundamentals as part of the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Expert Series. With more than 26 years of frontline experience, Kirk cuts through the complexity to reveal how HIPAA actually came to be, who it really covers, and why the regulatory landscape is growing more tangled—and more critical—by the year. This multipart series is designed to give you the baseline every privacy and healthcare professional needs.
Who is this program for? Attorneys and privacy professionals, healthcare industry professionals, business, HR, and technology leaders who are navigating HIPAA and/or collects, uses, or manages employee or consumer health information.
Speaker(s)
Kirk Nahra, Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practices, WilmerHale
Key Takeaways:
- The surprising origins of HIPAA: Discover why the law was never designed as a straightforward privacy statute—and why that history explains the gaps that trip up organizations today
- Who HIPAA covers—and who it doesn’t: Learn why major players like pharmaceutical companies, life insurers, and consumer health apps fall outside HIPAA’s reach, and what that means for your compliance strategy
- A rapidly changing legal landscape: Understand how a growing patchwork of federal and state laws is creating new complexity, confusion, and compliance risk for organizations of every kind