On June 23, Crowell & Moring and Accenture co-hosted the Fostering Innovative Digital Health Strategies Conference in Crowell’s D.C. office. The goal of the conference was to take a comprehensive look at all of the business and legal issues that need to be addressed as health care organizations and technology companies are considering innovative strategies using digital health technologies. The conference covered a wide array of digital health topics, including trends in the healthcare Internet of Things, setting up digital health platforms, legislative activity regarding health IT and telehealth, privacy, cybersecurity, and use of digital health technology to support new payment models.
Session 2, “Setting up a Platform for Digital Health,” featured panelists Jodi Daniel (Partner, Crowell & Moring), Bakul Patel (Associate Director for Digital Health, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA), Anna Shimanek (Senior Legal Counsel, CVS Health), Paul L. Uhrig (EVP, Chief Administrative, Legal, & Privacy Officer, Surescripts) and Ronan Wisdom (Managing Director, Accenture Digital). Key takeaways include:
- New partnerships are emerging. There is a broad movement among a variety of stakeholders – providers, payors, consumers, technology companies, and the government – toward using digital health to improve communicating with providers and patients’ understanding of their own health. This leads to new opportunities to partner with other organizations and require strategies for doing so effectively from a legal and business perspective.