IBM efforts in health care have included work on standards such as HL7 (Health Level 7) as well as participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network. The company is seeking to connect islands of information, such as patients, clinics, and hospitals.
Also the event, Barbara Bennett, a health care business and transactional lawyer, said the IT industry has no clue what it means to delve into health care because health care is heavily regulated and IT has had little of this
"It's overwhelming" to people used to a business has been essentially unregulated, Bennett said.
She listed key legal risks to watch for in developing products for health care:
* Privacy and security, including overlapping federal and state laws.
* FDA regulations that govern how medical devices, including software, can packaged, labeled, marketed, and sold.
* Medicare reimbursement, in which products must be reimbursable if they are to be sold.
* Fraud and abuse, in which influencing patient or physician choices can be seen as an attempt to steer health care product referrals. This factor can affect a product design and sales strategy.
* Malpractice. Technology can be seen by users as potentially causing mistakes rather than preventing them.
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