Healthcare Technology & Innovation

The healthcare industry is undergoing a profound shift: from a one-dimensional system focused on sickness and treatment to a multi-dimensional model that emphasizes prevention, integration, and patient outcomes. Driving this change are advances in healthcare technology — from AI and data analytics to digital health platforms and cloud-based systems — alongside new care delivery and payment models.

At Dickinson Wright, we help clients navigate this transformation. Our attorneys work with hospitals, health systems, insurers, digital health companies, and providers to design innovative strategies, deploy emerging technologies, and manage the complex legal and regulatory issues that come with them. Whether building clinically integrated networks, implementing advanced data-sharing frameworks, or negotiating technology agreements, we partner with clients to create solutions that improve outcomes, lower costs, and strengthen compliance.

Our Services

• Integration Strategies & CINs: Structuring clinically integrated networks (CINs) and large-scale group practices to enhance collaboration, improve quality, and reduce costs.

   

• Technology Transactions: Drafting and negotiating software licenses, cloud agreements, digital platform contracts, and AI deployment frameworks.

   

• Data Privacy & Security: Advising on HIPAA, HITECH, state and international privacy laws, sensitive data management, and breach response.

   

• AI & Emerging Tech: Guiding clients through the legal implications of AI, machine learning, automation, and digital health innovations.

   

• Behavioral Health Integration: Developing business models, telepsychiatry protocols, and psychiatric urgent care facilities to address complex patient needs.

   

• Pilot Projects & Payment Models: Creating innovative payor partnerships and risk-bearing models to drive value-based care.

   

• Health Information Exchange: Designing legally compliant data-sharing systems, including behavioral health and substance use disorder records.