HealthTech

Our specialist HealthTech team helps health and social care providers, suppliers of healthtech and other clients protect, embed and integrate digital solutions within the health and social care sector.

HealthTech can offer a great number of opportunities to revolutionise the way that health and social care is delivered to patients and service users. It enables patients/service users to have a greater level of involvement in their care and treatment. It offers health and social care professionals greater efficiency, oversight and value. And it can drive improvements in service delivery. However, such innovation and technology can introduce new challenges for both suppliers and health and social care providers which requires specialist advice to navigate.

Specialist package of support and advice

The team draws on experience of multiple departments to offer HealthTech suppliers a uniquely specialist package of support and advice. Whether it is one-off advice on a particular issue or project, or ongoing support, our HealthTech team can assist.

Our multi-disciplinary team advises clients on:

• National and global protection for your intellectual property.
• Commercialising HealthTech including licensing and SaaS.
• Advising on regulatory requirements and compliance responsibilities, such as completion of the NHS DSPT and CQC reporting.
• Advice on patient record access.
• Pro-active and reactive data protection and privacy advice.
• Product compliance, liability and safety issues.
• Advising on the structure and governance framework for your business.
• Advising on the implementation of investment rounds into your business.
• Corporate transactions involving proprietary HealthTech.
• Assessing your commercial contracts to ensure they work for your business.
• Dispute resolution.

Specific examples of HealthTech related work we have carried out for clients includes:

• IP audit (under innovation funding) for new health-care focused technology supplier.
• Advising a HealthTech provider through the NHS approval process, including implementation of appropriate privacy infrastructure to meet NHS requirements.
• Advising a start-up social care software platform on data protection and privacy measures.
• Advising a care-sector SaaS provider on its commercial terms and privacy infrastructure.
• Advising a HealthTech provider on its obligations under data protection and privacy legislation in respect of transfers of data.
• Technical due diligence of proprietary IT software for the purposes of acquisition.
• Retained instruction for ongoing data protection support and compliance auditing for special educational needs and care provider.
• Data auditing for two national charities providing care services.
• Trade mark registration for a care provider.
• Distributor and franchise agreement advice for a social care equipment provider.
• Technical due diligence of IT and data protection practices for the purposes of care home sale.