Overview
As one of the largest health care and life sciences practices in the Midwest, our attorneys understand that the face of health care is changing daily. The many challenges and opportunities created by the constantly changing landscape of the health care industry center around:
- Traditional providers delivering health care in new ways
- Payers, device and pharma companies collaborating with providers to improve care
- Service providers creating new access points to the health care market
- Patients taking more control over their own health care choices
If you are a health care innovator, or an investor in health care innovation, you know that the pace of change is accelerating. We want to help you be part of the transformation.
The sophisticated health law technology, finance and intellectual property lawyers in Fredrikson’s Health Care Innovation & IT Group have extensive experience representing clients who are transforming health care through innovative business models and information technologies. Our attorneys focus on maximizing gain while minimizing risk, which is a real challenge in the current legal and regulatory environment. As legal advisors, we focus on helping you capture the opportunities in this market by:
- Navigating a myriad of state and federal issues
- Protecting the innovation through patents, trade secrets, and litigation
- Structuring the business for investment and growth
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Experience
Our attorneys understand the many challenges and opportunities created by the constantly changing landscape of the health care industry.
Representative Cases
Retail Health Care
Primary legal counsel for the leading retail clinic in all aspects of its entity formation, regulatory compliance, financings, multi-state expansion and sale to a national pharmacy.
Health Care Franchisors
Represent health care franchisors in all aspects of their franchise operations.
Practice Management Companies
Represent numerous national practice management companies on a variety of matters, including regulatory compliance, financings and acquisitions.
Telemedicine & Remote Monitoring
Advise numerous companies providing telemedicine and remote monitoring through proprietary information technology, including advice regarding privacy, licensing, direct-to-consumer marketing and other compliance issues.
Medical Tourism
Represent a multi-provider network of health care providers to provide health care and concierge services to foreign citizens.
Diagnostics & Imaging
Assist providers of diagnostics and/or imaging systems, with particular focus on technology development and licensing and joint distribution arrangements.
Electronic Medical Records
Represent providers and numerous purchasers of EMR systems in license and related matters. Represent developers of EMR systems in intellectual property and enforcement matters.
Health Care Exchange
Advise on structure and contract matters involving group purchasing and health care exchange for sales of medical device and related products.
Data Collaborations
Advise on structure and negotiate collaboration arrangements between providers, payers and device companies using big data analytics to leverage clinical and payer data to improve cost of care.
FDA Matters
Guide manufacturers of regulated medical device software and apps through federal regulatory compliance matters.
Trade Secrets & Confidential Information
Advise numerous companies in all areas of technology on policies, contracts and best practices for protecting sensitive information. Represent clients through investigations and litigation involving potential security breaches.
Health Technology Infrastructure
Advise on trade secret protection and enforcement for Natural Language Processing (NLP) software used to parse and code electronic medical records.
Patents
Obtain and enforce patent rights for inventors of all manner of health care technology, from medical devices and software to pharmaceuticals. Investigate potential patent claims by competitors, guide clients through strategic plans to minimize patent challenges and defend against patent claims from competitors and non-practicing patent aggregators.
Team
Main Contact
612.492.7160