With the ever-increasing role of technology in all facets of health care, securing experienced representation with respect to Health Information Technology (HIT) initiatives is critical to the success of both your technology project and your ability to provide quality care to patients. The cross-disciplinary team of attorneys with GrayRobinson's Health Information Technology Practice is uniquely positioned to assist you in all aspects of HIT. Whether it is advice on the acquisition and installation of a new clinical management system, representation in a dispute with a software vendor over a failed implementation, negotiating a strategic outsourcing arrangement, or working with you on setting up a regional health information organization (RHIO), GrayRobinson's Health Information Technology Practice is ready to service all your HIT needs. The goal of the Health Information Technology Practice is to become part of your health care team. To that end, GrayRobinson's HIT attorneys possess the technical, health care, business and legal background to integrate at all levels within your organization. We can add the most value to your organization when we truly understand the nuances of your business, and the drivers that are motivating your organization with respect to each individual HIT project. At GrayRobinson, we pride ourselves on being recognized as not only your outside legal counsel but also your trusted HIT advisors.
HIT Licensing and Implementation
GrayRobinson's HIT attorneys have worked with health care companies to implement virtually every kind of health technology with every major HIT vendor and many smaller vendors. With each transaction, we have gained valuable insight into and understanding into the entire HIT life cycle, including vendor selection, transaction structuring/negotiation, project implementation/management and ongoing vendor performance/contract management. As a result, our HIT attorneys work with your business, legal, technology and clinical teams to structure o HIT engagement that meets your overall business requirements. A representative sample of HIT licensing and implementation projects undertaken by our HIT attorneys includes:
- Billing systems
- Cardiology data management systems
- Clinical management systems
- Computerized patient record systems
- Digital dictation systems
- Electronic claims submission agreements
- Health care Internet content agreements
- Hospital information systems
- Laboratory automation equipment
- Laboratory information systems
- Neurological radiosurgery devices
- Patient scheduling systems
- Pharmacy management systems
- Picture archiving and communications systems
- Radiology information systems
- Remote patient monitoring systems
- Robotic pharmacy systems
- Robotic surgery devices
- Systems integration agreements
- Wireless prescription systems
HIT Outsourcing
GrayRobinson's HIT attorneys have negotiated HIT technology and business process outsourcing arrangements valued in excess of $1 billion. Our HIT attorneys have been involved in wall-to-wall outsourcing arrangements of entire IT departments, strategic outsourcings of discrete health systems and business process outsourcing transactions of specific organizational functions. Our HIT attorneys realize that it is important to craft HIT outsourcing arrangements that align the often conflicting interests of the health care provider in reducing costs/increasing performance with the HIT vendor's objective of reducing overhead/maximizing profits. In response to these concerns, Gray Robinson's HIT attorneys have successfully structured outsourcing transactions that include innovative risk/reward arrangements, measurable service levels and other contract management techniques that allow the health care provider to maintain oversight and control of the outsourced services. GrayRobinson's attorneys have been involved in various HIT outsourcing engagements, including:
- Application development and maintenance
- Clinical systems
- Customer/patient contact center
- Business process outsourcing
- Accounting
- Facilities management
- Finance
- Human resources
- Procurement
- Supply chain
- Data centers
- Desktop management
- Device procurement and maintenance
- Disaster recovery
- Help desk/end-user support
- Mainframe/server services
- Managed services
- Network operations
- Offshore outsourcing
- Security services
- Systems integration
- Telecommunications/data transport
Privacy/Security
GrayRobinson's HIT attorneys understand the confidential nature of health information and the need to structure HIT transactions in compliance with federal and state privacy and security laws. Our HIT attorneys are well-versed in all aspects of HIPAA and routinely provide seminars to health care companies on HIPAA compliance, auditing and reporting. We will work with your organization to structure a HIT transaction that properly balances the need for access to information with the requirement to keep the information protected from unauthorized use and disclosure.
Full-Service HIT Representation
As a full-service law firm, GrayRobinson is prepared to advise you on every aspect of your HIT initiative. GrayRobinson's HIT attorneys are able to guide you through the quagmire of fraud and abuse, tax, corporate, and regulatory hurdles associated with all health care transactions. GrayRobinson's value lies in its seamless integration of practice specialties across multiple disciplines. GrayRobinson is able to harness these diverse yet integrated practices to best advise you on the nuances of your individual HIT project.
