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Kathleen Healy, a Partner with the law firm Verrill Dana, represents nonprofit academic medical centers and hospitals, medical practices, federally qualified health centers, and other health care providers on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters. She frequently advises institutional and individual health care providers on a variety of business transactions, including mergers and strategic affiliations, accountable care organizations, physician contracts and ancillary services agreements. She also counsels health care providers and health data organizations about compliance with health care laws, including HIPAA, HITECH and state privacy and security laws, fraud and abuse laws, EMTALA and informed consent. As legal counsel to a number of health data organizations, including Maine's fully operational state-wide health information exchange, Kate has negotiated data use agreements with integrated delivery systems and developed health data policies. Kate also worked with a broad range of stakeholders as a member of Maine's Health Information Technology Legal Working Group to establish statutory changes to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information.

a, represents nonprofit academic medical centers and hospitals, medical practices, federally qualified health centers, and other health care providers on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters. She frequently advises institutional and individual health care providers on a variety of business transactions, including mergers and strategic affiliations, accountable care organizations, physician contracts and ancillary services agreements. She also counsels health care providers and health data organizations about compliance with health care laws, including HIPAA, HITECH and state privacy and security laws, fraud and abuse laws, EMTALA and informed consent. As legal counsel to a number of health data organizations, including Maine's fully operational state-wide health information exchange, Kate has negotiated data use agreements with integrated delivery systems and developed health data policies. Kate also worked with a broad range of stakeholders as a member of Maine's Health Information Technology Legal Working Group to establish statutory changes to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information.