Iliana L. Peters

lliana Peters believes that good data privacy and security is fundamental to ensuring patients’ trust in the health care system and to helping health care clients succeed in an ever-changing landscape of threats to data security. She is recognized by the health care industry as a preeminent thinker and speaker on data privacy and security, particularly with regard to HIPAA, the HITECH Act, the 21st Century Cures Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), the Privacy Act and emerging cyber threats to health data.

For over a decade, she developed health information privacy and security policy, including on emerging technologies and cyber threats, for the Department of Health and Human Services. Iliana was the Acting Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy and Security, including HIPAA, at HHS when she left to join Polsinelli; previously she served as the Senior Advisor for HIPAA Enforcement. At HHS, Iliana also focused on training individuals in both the private and public sector, including compliance investigators, auditors and State Attorneys General, on HIPAA regulations and policy and data privacy and security practices, and training and compliance projects are her primary focus for consulting with her clients as part of Polsinelli Healthcare Solutions.