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Healthtech & Healthcare

VLP Law Group provides strategic legal counsel to companies in healthtech and healthcare — ranging from mobile application developers and digital health wellness startups to healthcare providers such as covered entities and service providers such as business associates, as well as technology platforms.

Our Expertise

Our cross-disciplinary team brings deep industry knowledge and legal experience to each healthtech and healthcare company. We advise clients across a range of healthcare and healthtech sectors and technologies, including:

  • Digital health platforms
  • Electronic health records (EHR) and interoperability solutions
  • Healthcare data analytics and clinical decision support tools
  • AI-enabled healthcare and operational technologies
  • Healthcare IT infrastructure, cloud, and SaaS platforms
  • Medical device software and software-enabled diagnostics
  • Patient engagement and care coordination technologies
  • Healthcare marketplaces and technology-enabled services providers
  • Workflow and practice management solutions
  • Data privacy, security, and compliance-driven technologies

Legal Services

We support our healthtech and healthcare clients with practical, business-focused legal guidance in areas such as:

  • Corporate and Venture Finance: Entity formation, venture capital and growth financings, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and M&A transactions in the healthtech and healthcare sectors.
  • Data Privacy and Security: Advising on data privacy and security laws and data breaches and incidents, including regarding HIPAA, state health privacy laws, and financial services regulatory laws, as well as state laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)/California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
  • Data Breach, Incident Preparedness and Response: Advising on data breach, incident preparedness, and response, including contractual risk allocation, cyber insurance, and internal response planning.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Advising on emerging federal and state requirements and practical implementation considerations for AI-enabled health products and services.
  • Commercial Agreements: Structuring and negotiating SaaS, digital health platform, interoperability, and technology-enabled services agreements, as well as vendor, outsourcing, and commercial arrangements across the healthcare ecosystem.
  • Strategic Partnerships and Technology Collaborations: Advising on strategic alliances among healthcare providers, digital health companies, and technology vendors to support the development, integration, and commercialization of innovative healthcare solutions.
  • Intellectual Property: Assisting with patentability review, patent preparation and prosecution, freedom-to-operate analysis, non-infringement and patent invalidity review, trade secret protection, trademark acquisition and enforcement, copyright, and intellectual property policies and strategies.
  • Employment and Compensation: Advising on executive compensation, equity plans, employment agreements, and regulatory considerations related to compensation structures in healthcare settings.

Partner With a Trusted Advisor

We don’t just advise healthtech and healthcare companies — we monitor evolving business and regulatory developments and work together with our clients to ensure they are well-positioned in an evolving healthcare environment.

Practice Insights

Corporate
Corporate
Technology Transactions
Technology Transactions
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
Employment
Employment
Executive Compensation
Executive Compensation

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