Past Events

This program will only be offered online. 3.0 hours Indiana CLE (Distance Education) credit will be available but you must register for the Zoom Webinar using the link below. Following registration, you will receive an email with a link to join the Webinar.

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E-mail certificates will be provided certifying attendance for those wishing to apply for CLE credit outside of Indiana.

Event Recording

Description: This seven-speaker virtual symposium will explore the emerging world of telehealth and the laws surrounding it. The speakers will give insight into what lessons were learned from telehealth’s mass implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the law may become as regulators embrace this technological advancement. Speakers will also teach about some of the roadblocks and pitfalls around telehealth, such as: inequal access, physician liability implications, and HIPAA privacy concerns. This event offers an in-depth exploration, by leading health law scholars and attorneys, of a topic that is becoming increasingly complex but will be important for attorneys to grasp as health care providers, insurers, physicians, and patients begin to utilize this emerging technology more frequently.

Student Note Competition:

During the event, attendees were invited to view and rank student note presentations and posters.

View Winners & All Student Note Presentations and Posters

Agenda

Presentation Slides	Carmel Shachar - Keynote Speaker  Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School  Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, is the Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She is responsible for oversight of the Center’s sponsored research portfolio, event programming, fellowships, student engagement, development, and a range of other projects and collaborations. Carmel was responsible for designing, recruiting for, and launching both the Center’s Health Care General Counsel Roundtable and the Center’s Advisory Board. She is involved heavily with the Center’s Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law, and its Diagnosing in the Home Initiative. In addition, she is Co-Editor of Bill of Health, a collaborative health policy blog. Carmel is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
Presentation Slides	Lara Compton - Panelist Member, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Lara is a trusted advisor to clients ranging from traditional health care providers to disrupter digital health platforms as they navigate the practical and regulatory challenges of health care innovation. Her unique depth of knowledge across HIPAA privacy and other regulatory issues governing the use of data, state and federal fraud and abuse laws, business planning and operational issues has led colleagues to describe Lara as the Swiss Army knife of health care problem-solving. Working at the intersection of health care and technology, Lara counsels telemedicine and other digital health clients on business plan strategy and implementation, state-specific telemedicine regulation, corporate practice of medicine, the scope of practice, fee splitting, anti-kickback, reimbursement, and other health care regulatory issues.
Presentation Slides	Dr. Stacey Tovino - Panelist  Professor of Law and Director, Graduate Healthcare Law Programs, The University of Oklahoma College of Law  Stacey Tovino, JD, PhD, serves as Professor of Law and Director, Graduate Healthcare Law Programs, at The University of Oklahoma College of Law. She is a leading expert in health law, bioethics, and the medical humanities and has particular expertise in civil, regulatory, operational, and financial aspects of health law. Professor Tovino's current research focuses on patient privacy and health information confidentiality, COVID-19 and the law, mental health law, and health technology and the law. An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Tovino is formally trained in both law and the medical humanities. She publishes her interdisciplinary research in textbooks, casebooks, encyclopedias, law reviews, medical and science journals, and ethics and humanities journals.
Presentation Slides	Carrie Nixon, Esq. - Panelist  Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Nixon Gwilt Law  Carrie Nixon, Esq. is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nixon Gwilt Law, a firm focused exclusively on healthcare innovation. She also serves as Special Advisor to Empactful Capital, a healthcare venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Carrie is an expert in healthcare law and policy issues relating to healthcare innovation, including Remote Patient Monitoring, telehealth, mHealth apps, healthcare predictive analytics, personalized medicine, and value-based delivery/reimbursement arrangements such as Value-Based Enterprises (VBEs), Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and other Alternative Payment Models (APMs). She provides counseling in healthcare regulatory compliance matters and strategy advice regarding business models and healthcare transactions. Carrie represents digital health companies and healthcare startups, along with hospitals, health systems, individual physicians and large physician groups, pharmacies, and post-acute care providers.
Presentation Slides	Christopher Robertson - Panelist  N. Neal Pike Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law  Christopher Robertson joined the BU Law faculty in 2020 as a tenured professor and N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health & Disability Law. Robertson is an affiliated faculty member with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard University. He previously served as associate dean for research and innovation and professor of law at the University of Arizona. Professor Robertson is an expert in health law, institutional design, and decision making. His wide-ranging work includes torts, bioethics, professional responsibility, conflicts of interests, criminal justice, evidence, the First Amendment, racial disparities, and corruption. In 2019, Harvard University Press published Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can be Done About It. Robertson has co-edited three books including Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation (forthcoming).
Presentation Slides	Dr. Laura Hoffman - Panelist  Visiting Professor of Law and Acting Director, Center for Health Law and Policy, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law  Dr. Laura C. Hoffman is Visiting Professor of Law and Acting Director for the Center for Health Law and Policy at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Prior to this, Dr. Hoffman served as a Senior Research Fellow with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School where she contributed to the development of projects and events involving palliative care policy, Elder Law, brain injury, and Disability Law. Additionally, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Law/Faculty Researcher for Seton Hall University School of Law’s Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law and Policy where her work focused on research projects aimed at making policy changes to improve healthcare access for people with disabilities and children. Previously, Dr. Hoffman worked for Data Federal Corporation as a contract Attorney Advisor for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals in the Cleveland, Ohio field office.
Presentation Slides	Deborah Farringer - Panelist  Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Law, Director of Health Studies, Belmont University College of Law  Deborah Farringer is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, an Associate Professor of Law, and Director of Health Law Studies at Belmont University College of Law where she teaches a variety of courses, including Health Law, Health Care Fraud and Abuse, Health Care Business and Finance, Bioethics, and Mental Health Law. Deborah is the faculty supervisor for the Belmont Health Law Journal. She currently serves as Board of Directors Chair for the Tennessee Justice Center, a non-profit firm that assists individuals with access issues. Her scholarship explores health law and policy, primarily related to health care compliance, including health data technology, fraud, abuse, and privacy issues. She has published articles in Brooklyn Law Review, Seattle Law Review, The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and Nevada Law Journal, among others.