Digitalization has revolutionized the healthcare industry and offers both opportunities and legal challenges. Digital technologies offer enormous potential to overcome the many challenges faced by almost all healthcare systems, thereby enabling improved and more efficient healthcare for all stakeholders. As a recognized law firm for IT law, we are specialized in providing legal support to companies, medical practices, or medical care centers in the field of digital health and assisting them in making optimum use of the potential of digitalization in the field of digital health and offer comprehensive advisory services tailored to the specific needs and requirements of our clients.

In the healthcare sector, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) offers a wide range of opportunities. For example, it is possible to use AI algorithms to analyze medical images such as X-rays, CT scans and MRIs to help doctors detect anomalies and diseases. In addition, AI can help to analyze and manage large amounts of healthcare data to identify trends, allocate resources efficiently and improve the quality of care.

The integration of IT infrastructure in the healthcare sector also requires a thorough examination of the protection of sensitive personal healthcare data. In the context of digitalization, data protection in particular, is facing ongoing changes in terms of its interpretation and practical feasibility. As part of an expert opinion for the evaluation of a new business model that pursued the processing of patient data for research purposes without patient consent, we have examined the data protection aspects of this new business model.

We offer comprehensive consulting services that are tailored to the specific needs and requirements of our clients.

Our services/offerings include, among others:

  • Compliance Advice: We help companies comply with all relevant laws and regulations, including data protection and security standards under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We also keep you up to date with new laws, legislative changes, and relevant court rulings. Through our Legal Risk Assessments, we offer you a well-founded evaluation for individual concerns in order to identify and evaluate potential legal risks. Based on these findings, we provide you with specific recommendations for action to establish an efficient compliance management that is appropriate for your company or organization. The same applies to the evaluation of new business models or the development of new products in the field of digital health.
  • Contract Drafting: We draft tailor-made contracts and agreements for your company in the field of digital health, including licensing agreements, cooperation or data protection agreements and TOM (Technical and Organizational Measures).
  • Intellectual Property: We help companies to permanently protect and, if necessary, enforce their intellectual property in the field of digital health, from the development of a health app or a software for the early detection of diseases. For the registration of trademarks and patents, we work with reputable law firms that specialize exclusively in these areas. We will be happy to organize a collaboration if required.
  • Artificial Intelligence: We are at your side to develop tailor-made solutions for your specific business models, including the drafting of license agreements and an effective data strategy. In addition, we will develop a customized AI ethics compass for you, tailored to your specific requirements. This guide will help you implement ethical principles in the use of artificial intelligence and ensure responsible handling of health data.

At MARAIT, we understand the unique challenges faced by digital health companies and are committed to supporting you in achieving your goals. Where specific medical law issues exist, we have highly regarded law firms in our network with whom we have already worked successfully for several clients.

Contact us to find out more about how we can help you to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitalization and ensure that you are legally protected in the area of digital health.

Michelle Bonk

Attorney Michelle Bonk advises clients on IT projects and IT compliance in German and English.

Michelle Bonk is a bar-admitted attorney and studied law at the University of Bayreuth, specializing in markets in the digital world. She completed her seminar paper on the topic of quality requirements for the storage cloud. In 2017, she obtained the Certificate of Higher Education in English Law at the University of Birmingham.

During her legal clerkship from 2021, Ms. Bonk worked at the Wismar Local Court, the Administrative Court and the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Schwerin, at a boutique law firm for media law/competition & intellectual property in Hamburg and at a medium-sized law firm in the field of IT/IP.

Ms. Bonk already worked for us as a working student during her studies and continued to do so during her legal clerkship until she joined the MARAIT team completely after completing her second state examination in 2023.

As a lawyer and Legal Counsel IT & Data, Michelle Bonk advises clients on software licensing law, data protection law and IT compliance in German and English, but in particular on the topic of health data. She also advises in the field of AI/AI and is involved in the preparation of legal opinions, statements and legal memoranda. For example, she wrote an expert opinion on the admissibility of a data processing model for processing patient data for research purposes without consent.

Memberships: Michelle Bonk is also a member of the Hamburg Bar Association, the German Bar Association, and the Young Lawyers Forum.

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