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
Health Care Privacy 101 and Beyond (Session 2)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. (PT) | B-CLE Webcast
0.50 CLE & CPE Credit Available
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You know HIPAA exists — but do you know what it actually permits, prohibits, and protects? In Session 2 of the Health Care Privacy 101 and Beyond series, Kirk Nahra, Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practices at WilmerHale, goes beyond the basics to unpack the core mechanics of HIPAA — from what qualifies as Protected Health Information (PHI) to the three categories of permitted use and disclosure that govern every healthcare organization. Drawing on more than 26 years of practice, Kirk brings these rules to life with real-world scenarios that reveal the nuances most professionals miss. This session is essential for anyone who advises, works within, or provides services to the healthcare industry.
Who is this program for? at any organization that handles protected health information.
Speaker(s)
Kirk Nahra, Co-Chair of the Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Privacy Practices, WilmerHale
Key Takeaways:
- What counts as Protected Health Information (PHI): Learn why even basic data like a patient’s name and address carries full HIPAA protections when held by a covered entity — and how that broad scope affects compliance
- The three permitted uses of health data: Understand the critical distinction between automatic treatment and payment uses, national priority exceptions (like public health reporting), and the specific patient authorization required for anything outside the norm
- Business associates and patient rights: Discover how HIPAA’s obligations extend through contract to thousands of vendors and service providers, and what individual rights patients hold — including ones most people never know to exercise