Hi, I’m Michael H. Cohen. I’m founding attorney at Cohen Healthcare Law Group. We provide legal strategies and solutions to businesses that accelerate health and wellness.

In today’s video, we’ll talk about how to handle legal challenges if you’re a digital health company, digital health companies, obviously everywhere, mobile health, digital health, your phone, your watch.

So first, ensure compliance with data privacy laws like HIPAA. Recently, we were helping a telehealth startup to implement their encryption and access controls to safeguard patient information so they can build trust with a client and stay out of the HIPAA or state law counterpart crosshairs.

Second, obviously the IP is very, very important. You have to patent your technology, you have to protect it. You have to trademark your logos. You have to make sure that the code is copyrighted. Need IP protection.

Third, FDA regulations for medical devices. If it’s a medical device, that’s the first question, right? Is it a medical device under medical device regulation or is it a general wellness device where you bypass all that stuff?

So, get legal counsel to make these early assessments. Position yourself so that you’re protected, you’re covered, you’re spotting the issues, and you have, along with a business plan, a good legal strategy plan to get to market.

This is just a brief view. We have a ton more resources on our blog and encourage you also to take a deep dive into our website.

If you’d like to dive deeper into any of the topics we’ve talked about today, reach out to us. Click below. We’d love to talk to you. We look forward to it.