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Today's health care organizations face a variety of complex technology-related issues. While the internet has the potential to enhance health care delivery, it also creates new challenges in the forms of increased competition and burdensome governmental regulation. For integrated delivery systems to be successful, state-of-the-art, seamless information systems must be created that can integrate and share information among all system participants, including physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, payors, and patients. The emergence of such systems, while holding much promise for improving the quality of health care, raises concerns regarding medical licensure, reimbursement, and risk management. The use of the internet as the information exchange platform reduces the capital costs needed to develop such systems but introduces new challenges that must be addressed by health care organizations: privacy and security of patient health information, intellectual property rights concerns, electronic contracting requirements, and myriad new internet-related agreements.

Jones Day's e-Health & Health Care Technology Practice advises health care clients on the legal aspects of these matters. Because of the importance of information systems and other technology to the fulfillment of their missions, health care organizations must protect their investment in these assets with the assistance of sound legal counsel. Further, the use of the internet and new technologies in the health care field creates legal risks that should be addressed and minimized.

More generally, the Firm's lawyers have a broad base of experience assisting health care industry clients in all aspects of their information systems needs, from turnkey hardware and software systems acquisitions and development contracts to network agreements, outsourcing, and shared services agreements. Our lawyers also have substantial experience in negotiating software license, development, support, and maintenance agreements, from both the licensor and licensee sides, and in negotiating web site agreements, ASP contracts, and outsourcing arrangements.

Our combination of legal experience and knowledge of the health care, e-commerce, and information technology industries makes Jones Day well qualified to recognize health care clients' needs and provide those clients with effective, business-oriented advice in approaching the complex matters that face today's health care industry.

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Lawyers Staff Overview Experience Professionals News Publications Main Practice Health Care	Today's health care organizations face a variety of complex technology-related issues. While the internet has the potential to enhance health care delivery, it also creates new challenges in the forms of increased competition and burdensome governmental regulation. For integrated delivery systems to be successful, state-of-the-art, seamless information systems must be created that can integrate and share information among all system participants, including physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, payors, and patients. The emergence of such systems, while holding much promise for improving the quality of health care, raises concerns regarding medical licensure, reimbursement, and risk management. The use of the internet as the information exchange platform reduces the capital costs needed to develop such systems but introduces new challenges that must be addressed by health care organizations: privacy and security of patient health information, intellectual property rights concerns, electronic contracting requirements, and myriad new internet-related agreements. Jones Day's e-Health & Health Care Technology Practice advises health care clients on the legal aspects of these matters. Because of the importance of information systems and other technology to the fulfillment of their missions, health care organizations must protect their investment in these assets with the assistance of sound legal counsel. Further, the use of the internet and new technologies in the health care field creates legal risks that should be addressed and minimized. More generally, the Firm's lawyers have a broad base of experience assisting health care industry clients in all aspects of their information systems needs, from turnkey hardware and software systems acquisitions and development contracts to network agreements, outsourcing, and shared services agreements. Our lawyers also have substantial experience in negotiating software license, development, support, and maintenance agreements, from both the licensor and licensee sides, and in negotiating web site agreements, ASP contracts, and outsourcing arrangements. Our combination of legal experience and knowledge of the health care, e-commerce, and information technology industries makes Jones Day well qualified to recognize health care clients' needs and provide those clients with effective, business-oriented advice in approaching the complex matters that face today's health care industry.