Health care providers, health plans, vendors, medical researchers, quality improvement organizations, and other enterprises face a variety of unique and complex legal and regulatory issues related to information technologies applied in the health care industry. We regularly counsel clients, and are an industry leader, in addressing health information privacy and security issues (including HIPAA and similar state and federal laws) faced by industry participants. Our practice also routinely involves advice and representation in connection with information system acquisitions, software licensing, electronic medical records, telemedicine, electronic prescribing, use of the internet, exchange of clinical data and data repositories ownership of health information.

Business and regulatory demands have resulted in dramatic changes in the health care industry related to uses and exchanges of health information in an electronic environment. We have extensive involvement in assisting clients with these developments, including legal and contracting issues related to community and other information networks and data repositories. These efforts also naturally involve a wide range of legal issues, including privacy and security issues, antitrust, Stark and Anti-Kickback, finance and tax planning, governance, and protection of trade secrets.