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Health Information Technology and e-Health Companies
Hospitals, physician groups, health plans, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies, technology companies and investors are pursuing opportunities arising out of the health care system’s information technology revolution. Sonnenschein’s Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) attorneys provide the full range of counseling in connection with HCIT arrangements, ventures and projects.
- Transactional and Corporate Matters. Members of Sonnenschein’s HCIT group have handled a wide variety of HCIT-related deals, including spin-offs, sales of companies, acquisitions, financings and ventures in health care transaction processing. We have represented hospitals, insurers, regional health information organizations, hardware, software and service vendors, telecommunications organizations, and data clearinghouses in the sale and acquisition of HCIT.
- Regulatory Compliance. We have counseled hospitals, insurers, data clearinghouses, regional health information organizations and physicians groups on the full range of privacy, data security, transaction and code set requirements. Our team is uniquely qualified to examine the fraud and abuse implications of HCIT arrangements. We assist clients whose products — such as medical software — may be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Our team also is familiar with many of the State-level recordkeeping laws applicable to electronic medical records.
- Emerging Companies. Our group has counseled HCIT entrepreneurs through the many legal and business challenges that confront emerging, innovative technology firms. We are familiar with corporate, tax, intellectual property, securities, employment and other issues that, if well addressed, position a growing company to raise capital, hire and retain talent and focus on achieving business plan goals.
- Public Finance. A major challenge for community-wide and regional health information organizations is the development of adequate sources of capital. Private players face different but similarly challenging funding needs. Our HCIT group includes public finance and financial transactions and securities lawyers skilled in developing creative strategies for the raising of capital.
- Public Policy Strategies. Federal and State governments are increasingly recognizing the power of information technology to improve medical care, reduce medical errors, make health care administration more efficient and give more power to patients. As representatives of leading HCIT trade associations, standard-setting bodies, physicians organizations, hospital groups and HCIT companies, we regularly participate in the formation of public policy.
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