Healthcare AI Vendor Contracts: Customer and Vendor Negotiation Strategies, Risk Assessment, Key Provisions

Ms. Metnick is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office and a member of the Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity Teams. She represents a range of healthcare industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, physician organizations and digital health companies. Ms. Metnick advises on healthcare regulatory and transactional matters with a focus on health information privacy and security. She is the founder and leader of Sheppard Mullin Healthy AI, which is an initiative focused on legal issues relates to the use of AI in healthcare. Ms. Metnick counsels healthcare clients on issues relating to AI, including governance, contractual matters, and data related issues. She advises clients on a range of privacy and security laws, including HIPAA and other federal and state privacy laws. Ms. Metnick also counsels businesses in data breach investigations and compliance with federal and state breach notification laws. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/ US) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).

Ms. O'Neill represents medical groups, independent practice associations, management services organizations, hospital systems, payors and other healthcare industry clients, both for-profit and non-profit. On the transactional side, she manages mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic affiliations of every shape and size. On the advisory side, Ms. O'Neill guides clients on legal issues impacting operations, including commercial contracting, corporate governance, provider employment, licensing, AI governance and oversight, telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, regulatory transaction reviews and approvals, corporate practice of medicine, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, peer review and mandated reporting. As a former registered nurse at a major academic medical center, Ms. O'Neill has years of hands-on experience in healthcare delivery and clinical operations. Her practical experience informs her advice to clients on value-based care transformation initiatives, including risk-based contracting, population health management, team-based care, care coordination, risk adjustment, provider alignment strategies, ACOs, and clinically integrated networks.