Might 1-3, 2022
Boston Conference & Exhibition Middle
Boston, MA
Foley & Lardner LLP is worked up to announce that quite a few attorneys can be talking on the American Telemedicine Affiliation ATA2022 Annual Convention & Expo, the world’s largest telehealth innovation occasion. The convention brings collectively suppliers, know-how builders, enterprise professionals, and leaders from throughout the well being care sector to have in-depth, considerate, and significant discussions about the way forward for well being.
In a deep-dive session titled, “The Enterprise of Telehealth: Authorized Points Round Telehealth,” at 9:00 a.m. ET on Might 1, 2022, Companions Nathaniel Lacktman, Alexis Finkelberg Bortniker, Kyle Faget, Thomas (T.J.) Ferrante, and Aaron Maguregui will discover prime regulatory points new digital and telehealth firms have to navigate to keep away from pitfalls. Subjects will embrace:
- Driving consumer engagement whereas managing privateness and danger issues
- Transitioning from a direct to shopper mannequin to an insurance coverage based mostly mannequin
- Understanding HIPAA compliance, compliance program necessities, fraud and abuse fundamentals, and getting ready for transition
- FDA laws round digital units
- Labor and employment legislation issues for multistate firms
- Distant affected person monitoring contracting and authorized points, rising fashions, and potential for brand spanking new codes
Lacktman can even be a panelist on the session titled, “This Isn’t 2019’s Telehealth: Constructing the Subsequent Technology of Digital Care,” at 2:40 p.m. ET on Might 2, 2022.
He can be joined by well being tech investor Kristin Baker-Spohn, normal associate at CRV, and Michelle Davey, CEO and co-founder of Wheel, a well being care know-how firm powering digital care. Collectively, they’ll talk about how the well being care business is at a crossroads, with telehealth charges waxing and waning over the past a number of months prompting questions over whether or not telehealth remains to be a wise funding.
Skeptics have been fast to leap in and counsel that the demand for digital care was pushed by short-term concern of COVID-19 somewhat than a long-term change in conduct and preferences. However the pandemic has finished greater than drive adoption charges — it additionally pushed digital well being advocates to acknowledge the gaps and begin getting ready for the longer term the place digital care is seen as a long-term answer to modernizing our well being care system somewhat than a brief repair.
Bringing collectively an entrepreneurial mindset and business know-how, Lacktman and his co-presenters will present insights on what each firm must find out about constructing for the following era of digital care. Subjects will embrace:
- A renewed give attention to infrastructure: The demand for telehealth over the previous few years helped usher in a brand new ecosystem of firms targeted solely on what’s occurring beneath the hood. Now that bringing a service to market could be finished in a matter of months (or weeks), the panel will talk about how this new vertical is elevating the bar for rising startups, conventional well being care suppliers, and everybody in between.
- Document-breaking funding: 2021 had already seen greater than $20 billion on the shut of Q3 — twice what was raised in 2020 — signaling that each traders and entrepreneurs are bullish on well being care innovation. The panel will supply their predictions on how the panorama will shift now that modern firms have the struggle chest to deliver their massive concepts to market.
- Embracing the uncertainty: The precarious regulatory terrain has finished little to stifle enthusiasm about the way forward for telehealth. If something, it’s inspired innovators to embrace bold concepts and agendas. The panel will share real-world examples of how firms have flipped what was as soon as a barrier right into a aggressive benefit.
- Getting clinicians on board: The pandemic supplied many clinicians with the chance to expertise digital care first-hand — together with the advantages of working from dwelling and setting a versatile schedule — finally turning many skeptics into advocates. The panel will dissect what each firm wants to think about when ensuring clinicians are on the forefront of the following era of digital care.
These periods are simply two of many considerate shows at this 12 months’s ATA convention, which is able to discover the theme, “Now What? Creating an Alternative in a Time of Uncertainty,” and study the digital well being panorama and what can be needed to determine telehealth as a everlasting, legitimate, and needed part of on a regular basis care supply. Be part of these Foley attorneys and different digital well being leaders at this multi-day occasion to construct upon classes discovered and establish the challenges and alternatives to enhance affected person and supplier experiences, and scientific outcomes, in these unsure instances.
To study extra and register for this occasion, go to the ATA2022 Annual Convention & Expo web site.
