Representative Experience
Health Information Technology
Community health information exchange network development and network user participation; a principal author of Connecting for Health Common Framework: Resources for Implementing Private and Secure Health Information Exchange: Model Contract for Health; assists firm clients in structuring information exchange pilot programs for comparative testing of new technologies, work flow redesign and evaluation of patient authentication, privacy, security and functionality components, conducting governance and organization surveys and drafting health information exchange participation agreementsl; co-author of Guide to Establishing a Regional Health Organization, published by Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS 2007).
Managed Health Care
Representation of health maintenance organizations, insurers, health care providers, benefit managers and others in contracting licensing, regulatory compliance, product development, government contracting, finance and general health and corporate and business law matters
Developing managed health care products including financing arrangements and contracting structures, development of specialty networks and health care plans and carve-out health care products
Corporate and Business Law
Hospital, health system and other health care provider mergers and acquisitions
Formations and startups in e-health, Internet, technology and other sectors
Representation of nonprofit organizations and public agencies in the health care industry and other government roles and charitable services
Memberships and Activities
California State Bar Association
Education
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
A.B. in Rhetoric, with highest honors, University of California, Berkeley
