About HIPAA Group, Inc.

The Nationwide HIPAA Leader
HIPAA Group, Inc. is an innovative HIPAA training and consulting organization with offices in Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles. Known for its positive HIPAA philosophy and engaging training experiences, HIPAA Group is leading the way in HIPAA compliance, training, and awareness across the nation. Since its inception in 2002, HIPAA Group has delivered excellence in HIPAA education, awareness, and compliance materials.

Relationships that Matter
From the nation’s most prestigious, ‘Top 100’ integrated health systems, to small physician practices, HIPAA Group has trained thousands of healthcare professionals to respect, but not fear HIPAA. We have trained physicians, medical staff, attorneys, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Information Officers, HIPAA Privacy Officers, HIPAA Security Officers, and HIPAA Business Associates in a wide range of industries.

HIPAA Group is also the exclusive HIPAA Training Partner of The University of Central Florida (UCF), where we have trained students, faculty, and the UCF Office of Legal Counsel. UCF also offers online HIPAA courses authored by HIPAA Group to its students and the U.S. healthcare community.

Products That Simplify HIPAA
Our innovative compliance and training products have been integrated into thousands of Covered Entities and Business Associates’ operations over the years. People love our positive, no-nonsense approach to HIPAA, and our products all reflect this philosophy.

Consulting Expertise Clients Love
Since its inception, HIPAA Group has executed a wide range of technical consulting projects related to HIPAA. Our clients are leaders and innovators in highly specialized market niches, and they depend on HIPAA Group’s experience and knowledge when they launch new products, services and companies.

Some examples of actual consulting projects executed by HIPAA Group…

• When one of the top-five healthcare communications companies, with offices in 21 countries, needed to launch a new inbound call-center project for a major medical device manufacturer, they called on HIPAA Group. We developed customized training for project principles and staff, helped assess project risk, and made process and technology recommendations to ensure a smooth rollout.
• When one of America’s largest onsite (workplace) healthcare companies began an aggressive corporate expansion program, they engaged HIPAA Group to clarify the situation. HIPAA Group prepared technical and management presentations, supporting documents, and trained a group of senior managers and clinicians in a special session at one of the client’s national management conferences.
• A leading workplace Rewards Management Company consulted with HIPAA Group to help then understand the implications of the recently-modified HIPAA Wellness Regulations on their operations, marketing, and technology infrastructure. HIPAA Group conducted a systematic, onsite evaluation of the client’s headquarters operations and technology infrastructure, and presented recommendations for improvements.
• Several specialized web-services companies, including major hosting and data backup firms, have used HIPAA Group’s technical consulting services to ensure compliance with HIPAA’s privacy and security mandates. HIPAA Group has also assisted such firms with marketing communications, to ensure that they deliver a clear, compelling story about their compliance efforts to clients and prospects.
• When the TPA (Third Party Administrator) division of one of America’s largest banks needed customized HIPAA training and materials, they called on HIPAA Group to meet their needs. HIPAA Group delivered customized training to hundreds of employees, prepared HIPAA Manuals for senior management, and created unique guides and handbooks for operations personnel. With HIPAA Group’s help, this client reduced operational risk and successfully expanded their operations.

Legal Consulting and Expertise
Our President and Principal, Abner Weintraub, provides superior legal insights and expertise in support of plaintiffs and defendants across the country. Whether directly involved in a case, providing testimony on HIPAA-related elements of a case, or simply advising counsel on strategy and tactics related to HIPAA, Mr. Weintraub is the HIPAA expert serious attorneys call on when the going gets tough.

Abner E. Weintraub – President

As President and Chief Executive Officer of HIPAA Group Inc., Abner Weintraub is an acknowledged national authority on HIPAA (Public Law 104-191).

Abner was involved in the early days of HIPAA as the leader of a team assembled by the Southern Healthcare Administrative Regional Process (SHARP), to produce the original HIPAA Compliance Extension Plan for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under the direction of Mr. James “Chet” Barclay, an attorney with the law firm of Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, Abner was the Business Administration Team Leader for The HIPAA Compliance Extension Plan, which HHS released to all HIPAA Covered Entities on March 29, 2002.

Mr. Weintraub has personally trained thousands of people on HIPAA, including a “Top-100” Integrated Health System, physicians, medical staff, attorneys, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Information Officers, HIPAA Privacy Officers, HIPAA Security Officers, and HIPAA Business Associates.

Abner has successfully completed numerous HIPAA-related consulting engagements, including: software compliance evaluation for a national, on-site workplace healthcare provider; privacy process consulting for a leading healthcare marketer; custom training and compliance materials for the TPA division of a “Fortune 100” bank; and compliance reviews for many HIPAA Covered Entities.

Abner has published numerous HIPAA articles and reports in leading periodicals such as the “Journal of AHIMA” (American Health Information Management Assn.); “In Confidence”, an international healthcare newsletter; “CMA Today”, a magazine for Certified Medical Assistants; and “M.D. News”, a national journal for medical doctors.

Mr. Weintraub is the author of numerous books, manuals, and training courses on HIPAA and HIPAA Compliance, including: “The HIPAA Reference Manual”; “The HIPAA Behavior Guide”; “A HIPAA Guide for Patients”; and “The Ten Commandments of HIPAA Privacy”.

Multiple online HIPAA training courses authored by Mr. Weintraub are currently being offered by the University of Central Florida (UCF) to its healthcare students, faculty, and to the national medical community at large.

Abner also moderates an online “Ask the Expert” Forum, where he answers HIPAA and medical privacy-related questions from healthcare professionals, medical staff, attorneys, and patients every week. Abner has also served as a HIPAA Expert in legal cases in many states.