Clients in the healthcare sector need advisors who understand the industry's business model, along with the innovation and regulatory landscape, including finance, big data and data analytics, compliance, and data protection.
Our lawyers provide knowledgeable advice on regulatory, intellectual property, and privacy matters in the healthcare industry. Our Partner has a background as an in-house lawyer in the tech and life science sector. We know multi-tenant healthcare SaaS, cloud hosting of patient data, GDPR-compliant healthcare SaaS, and patient data in cloud services in the interplay of MDR, GDPR, and NIS2.
Notable highlights
- We advise a VR start-up in developing and launching consumer mobile applications for mental wellness using immersive technologies.
- Our team advised a leading Swedish private healthcare provider on setting up its IT procurement process, including SaaS. We developed the process and a new set of general terms for procuring SaaS, taking into account data protection, GDPR and other regulatory requirements relating to the innovative use of patient data.
- We are advising a healthcare provider in an enforcement process before the Swedish data protection supervisory authority.
- Our team has been appointed as the Data Protection Officer for a Nordic start-up in the e-health sector, providing daily support on product development, partnerships, customer negotiations, and interactions with supervisory authorities.
- We advise manufacturers of connected products and digital services for elderly care, supporting the design, development and delivery of solutions where hardware, software, personal data, healthcare workflows and user trust must work together. Our work includes external expert counsel, data protection advice and DPO support for product teams and management.
- As DPO and external privacy counsel, we have supported the compliance development and launch of AI-supported patient-facing and doctor-facing features, including AI-supported predictions. This work includes practical guidance on governance, risk assessment, transparency, data protection, product design and internal accountability.
- We support healthcare and e-health providers in navigating the legal and operational challenges of multi-tenant cloud and SaaS environments used to host or process patient data. This includes advice on tenant separation, access controls, auditability, processor arrangements, information security, data localisation, international transfers and how to structure customer-facing terms where several healthcare organisations use a shared technical instance.
