The conference media will contain the content of both the Second Privacy Symposium at Harvard University and the Sixteenth National HIPAA Summit at Harvard University.

The Second Privacy Symposium will address a number of key national and international privacy policy issues and present industry-specific hypothetical case studies. The Symposium will convene a wide variety of noted experts in the field, with the goal of developing and sharing thoughtful and practical approaches to privacy and security policies and procedures.

The Sixteenth National HIPAA Summit will address healthcare privacy and data security which remain one major policy and operations issues in American healthcare. Current health information technology initiatives raise new and complex healthcare privacy and security issues. HIPAA Compliance is not only complex, but also extremely costly as healthcare moves to electronic data interchange and the Internet and beyond to a variety of new health information technology initiatives. The HIPAA Summit conference series provides a road map to understanding the complex requirements of federal and state law and illuminates strategies for compliance.