TECHNOLOGY
For more than ten years, the attorneys at The Pretus Law Group have worked with hospitals, integrated health systems, and entrepreneurs on their strategic technology initiatives and transactions, as well as technology acquisition and commercialization. The Pretus Law Group has extensive experience helping hospitals and health systems navigate the full range of legal matters pertaining to their information systems, healthcare technology, as well as the data contained within those systems. We also have extensive experience assisting our hospital and health system clients with leveraging their information systems to achieve their strategic growth and hospital/physician alignment goals through the extension of clinical, financial, and other software systems through joint ventures, management agreements, or other strategic affiliations. Our expertise includes over a decade of experience in:
- Drafting and negotiating vendor, service provider, and customer agreements both from the service-provider and the customer side.
- Software Licensing (Open Source, SaaS, cloud hosting, digital content, service-level agreements)
- Developing EHR donation programs and related MSO services
- Advising on IT migration issues in connection with provider consolidations and acquisitions
- Managed Services (Co-location, Data Centers, technology support for affiliate networks)
- Internet Law (Website Terms and Privacy Policies, including cookies, industry-specific privacy and security notices, and ADA requirements); e-Commerce
- Business technology training and drafting related compliance materials (forms, manuals, playbooks, etc.)
- Negotiating with nearly every major manufacturer of multi-modal clinical and diagnostic technology
- Intellectual Property protection in connection with app development and commercialization including license, work-for-hire, and technology transfer agreements
- State, federal, and international regulatory compliance with data privacy, data protection, and consumer protection laws
Strategic Transactions & Advice
- Hospital/Community provider IT integration strategies and ambulatory EMR programs
- Affiliation strategies based on the extension of clinical, financial, and ancillary systems and services
Hospitals as System Providers
- Business modules to extend hospital systems and related services to independent hospitals and physicians
- Governance models for shared instance electronic health records
- Contracts and contracting strategies to execute business and strategy
e-Health and Telemedicine
- Development and negotiation of hub-and-spoke telemedicine programs and related agreements
- Advising on state-by-state telemedicine licensure requirements
- Advising and risk management consulting in connection with off-shore and international telemedicine
Software, Hardware and SaaS Acquisition - Ambulatory and inpatient EMRs
- Data warehouses, business intelligence and other “Big Data” solutions
- Revenue cycle management, billing software, and other service-level agreements
- Decision support and population health management tools
- Payor systems (including claims processing, claims payment systems)
Clinical equipment (imaging, interventional, therapeutic and surgical)
- Outsourced Services
- Diagnostic equipment including imaging and laboratory systems
- Proton Therapy Systems
- Outsourced data centers
- IT outsourcing service-level arrangements
- Cloud and other remote hosting arrangements
- Interoperability
Commercial Opportunities
- Customer-facing licensing, sublicensing, SaaS, and service-level agreements
- Developing and implementing intellectual property policies and technology transfer agreements