eHealth

Technology continues to have a profound and wide-ranging impact on the health care industry. eHealth encompasses such broad categories as website marketing of health care services, online appointment scheduling, telemedicine, teleradiology, telerobotics, telepathology, online pharmacies, virtual medicine or ecare, Internet disease management, wireless clinical PDAs, online medical records, clinical decision software, professional health education via the Internet, cybercommunities for the support of specific diseases, health care supply chain procurement, online benefits administration, Internet connectivity and one "back office" administration using the Internet. Such activities trigger not only existing and emerging health care specific regulations, but a myriad of developing laws and regulations relating to the business use of technology.

The Health Law Department and Business and Technology Group of Baker Donelson together offer comprehensive and proactive advice and solutions to often complex ehealth issues. Recently, Baker Donelson has:

• Negotiated strategic agreements, copyrighted software and is prosecuting a business method patent for a provider of online ratings for hospital groups;
• Provided strategic planning, risk assessment and all online contracts, website agreements, strategic partner agreements and privacy agreements for a provider of financing for elective surgery;
• Represented client in multi-million dollar service agreement to use a proprietary patient and network management tool to originate, finance, schedule and clinically manage patients for medical procedures;
• Prepared content and license agreements for online medical protocols and treatment sites;
• Negotiated Web hosting agreement, electronic back-up strategy and website and software agreements for a major pharmaceutical company;
• Prepared software agreements and copyright strategy for a medical reimbursement company;
• Prepared numerous domestic and foreign license, shareholder, joint venture, application service provider and other agreements for a medical software developer/vendor;
• Provided strategic planning, strategic alliance agreements, website agreements and privacy policy and procedure for a provider of in-room computers to hospital patients;
• Provided strategic advice, financing and other key agreements for a provider of online financing to physician practice groups;
• Assisted in capital formation and drafted content license agreement for online source of evidence-based medicine; and
• Prepared online contracts, website agreements and strategic partner agreements for optometrist and ophthalmologist management group.