AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

General counsel have played a much greater leadership role than ever before in response to the pandemic. Nancy Reiner, Partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa, speaks with Blaire Bernard, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Iora Health, about her experiences as a health-tech general counsel during the pandemic. They discuss how risk was managed, how governance structures were organized to navigate decision making challenges, and how businesses can prepare themselves for future crises. They also discuss how general counsel can operate in a resilient and human-focused way while encouraging positive and smarter change, and Blaire talks about some of the next big health-tech trends facing general counsel. Sponsored by Major, Lindsey & Africa.

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Real estate is an essential element of health care. Goran Musinovic, Vice President, Realty Trust Group, hosts a conversation with three real estate directors who offer insights into their health systems’ real estate operations. They discuss:

• The role of real estate and its impact on organizational decision making.
• How the real estate function is staffed and which functions are outsourced.
• Strategic goals and objectives and how compliance relates to the real estate function.
• Interactions with other departments and fostering a culture of collaboration and communication.
• Some of the biggest challenges associated with the real estate function and how to measure success.

Goran’s panel includes Sara Seifried, Director of Real Estate Operations and Ambulatory Facilities, BayCare Health System, Tamia Kramer, AVP of Real Estate, Ardent Health Services, and Nathan Beckey, Director of Corporate Real Estate and Development, Children’s Health.

Listen to Goran’s other conversations with health care system real estate counsel and health care system real estate compliance officers.

Sponsored by Realty Trust Group.

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AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

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Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

In statements throughout his tenure as Director of HHS’ Office for Civil Rights from 2017-2021, Roger Severino was repeatedly critical of organizations for not performing a risk analysis or taking action to mitigate identified risks, as required by the HIPAA Security Rule. Clearwater Executive Chairman Bob Chaput talks to him about why he’s so passionate about this area of HIPAA compliance and previews the more in-depth discussion that will take place during a special web event on Thursday, September 30. Sponsored by Clearwater. 

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

In this episode of AHLA's monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Partner, Goodwin Procter, speaks to Rob Cepielik, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group, and David Resnicoff, Partner, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, about third-party monitorships, including recommendations for how companies can plan for a government-imposed monitor or an independent review organization and what to expect during the process. They discuss the different types of monitorships, key government guidance, the benefits to a company of having a monitorship in place, and how monitors handle potential violations. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by BRG.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Summa Health, and Emily Grey, Partner, Breazeale Sachse & Wilson, explore the role Chief Information Officers currently play in helping health systems and plans execute their strategic plans, along with digital health and IT trends that have accelerated during the pandemic. Some of the trends discussed include the rise of telehealth and remote monitoring, addressing patient care through data management and analytics, and the role of digital devices from a clinical standpoint.

Rob and Emily’s panel includes Michael Hyder, who is a consultant and former chief medical officer and chief medical information officer, Harun Rashid, who is Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer at Akron Children’s Hospital, and Tanya Arthur, who is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City.

From AHLA’s Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group. Listen to the first episode in this series, on health system strategies during disruptive times.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Stephanie Hudson, Managing Member, Hudson Healthcare Lawyers LLC, speaks with Theresa Langley, Associate, Husch Blackwell LLP, Lori Mihalich-Levin, CEO and Founder, Mindful Return, and Lauren Suttell, Partner, Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, about how the pandemic has changed the lives of working moms. They discuss what life was like before the pandemic and how everything changed in March 2020, the transition to remote work and school, and challenges related to childcare. They also share tips and strategies that they have used to adjust to work and life during the pandemic and discuss how to transition back to the office and classroom.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Laura F. Fryan, Partner, Brouse McDowell, speaks to Nicole Cifra and Taylor Starr, physicians at the Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center, about the intersection of the law and the practice of medicine when it comes to treating patients with eating disorders. They discuss legal issues related to determining inpatient versus outpatient treatment, guardianships for adults, the concept of “treating over objection,” and treating children and adolescents. 

Dr. Cifra, MD, MPH is an Adolescent Medicine Fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Dr. Starr, DO, MPH is an assistant professor of pediatrics and medical director of Golisano’s Eating Disorder Program. 

Read Laura’s in-depth interview with Drs. Cifra and Starr in this May 2021 PG Briefing. From the Children’s Health Affinity Group of AHLA’s Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

Steve Vieux, Counsel, Shook Hardy & Bacon, speaks with Doug Litvack, Partner, Jenner & Block, and Barbara Sicalides, Partner, Troutman Pepper, about the Sixth Circuit’s recent decision in St. Luke’s v. ProMedica, which vacated a preliminary injunction enjoining a health system from removing a competing health system from its integrated insurance company’s network. Litvack and Sicalides share some of the facts, arguments, and defenses of the case and key takeaways for health care providers and managed care systems. Litvack served as counsel to ProMedica in the case. From AHLA’s Antitrust Practice Group.

Watch the full conversation here.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/. 

The current hiring market in the health care and life sciences industry is booming. Elizabeth Long, Managing Director, Major, Lindsey & Africa, and Lisa Vandecaveye, General Counsel, The Joint Commission, discuss how to hire and retain legal talent in this new environment. They address the reasons candidates leave for other opportunities, how to adjust to new remote/hybrid work models, changes to the interview and onboarding process, and the importance of helping legal talent develop soft skills. Sponsored by Major, Lindsey & Africa.

Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio

AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.

Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education

Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.