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U.S. Legal Counsel for Healthcare and Digital-Health Businesses
Healthcare SaaS platforms, digital-health businesses, and professional practices on transactional and commercial contracting, HIPAA business associate arrangements, and practice acquisitions.
DP Counsel PLLC does not provide healthcare regulatory, FDA, medical-board, or clinical-compliance advice. Where specialist healthcare regulatory advice is required, appropriately qualified counsel may be engaged, with coordination by DP Counsel PLLC as appropriate.
Overview
Industry Overview
Healthcare and digital-health companies — including healthcare technology platforms, clinical collaboration providers, and professional practices — operate in a commercial environment where service agreements, data obligations, and responsibility allocation must address protected health information, business-associate requirements, and the relationship between operating and professional entities. The Firm's work centers on transactional and commercial contracting: SaaS and platform agreements, business associate agreements, management-services arrangements, and practice acquisition documentation.
Corporate and acquisition work arises when healthcare businesses structure operating and professional entities, acquire or divest practices, and negotiate sponsorship, content, and licensing arrangements. The Firm does not provide healthcare regulatory, FDA, medical-board, or clinical-compliance advice; where such advice is required, appropriately qualified counsel may be engaged, with coordination by the Firm.
Legal Issues
Typical Legal and Commercial Issues
Healthcare SaaS and platform contracting
How service scope, SLAs, data rights, and security obligations are allocated in SaaS agreements that handle protected health information or clinical data.
HIPAA business associate arrangements
What PHI obligations, security-incident provisions, subcontractor requirements, and termination obligations apply under a business associate agreement.
Professional and management-services structure
How the relationship between an operating entity and a professional corporation is structured, how responsibility is allocated, and what regulatory constraints apply to the arrangement.
Healthcare-practice acquisition documentation
How a practice acquisition is structured, what assets and liabilities transfer, and how license-dependent operations and transaction-specific risk are addressed.
Medical content and sponsorship licensing
How content use, sponsorship rights, attribution, and licensing scope are structured for medical newsletters, publications, and educational materials.
Data, IP and responsibility allocation
Who owns patient data, platform content, and clinical materials, and how responsibility for data security, IP infringement, and regulatory compliance is allocated across the parties.
Experience
Selected Representative Experience
HIPAA Business Associate Agreement Review
Reviewed a HIPAA business associate agreement for a SaaS healthcare platform, focusing on contractual responsibility allocation, protected-health-information obligations, security-incident provisions, subcontractor treatment and termination.
Healthcare-Practice Acquisition Documentation
Reviewed purchase documentation for the acquisition of a healthcare-related professional practice, focusing on the acquisition structure, transferred assets and liabilities, contractual obligations and transaction-specific risk allocation.
MSO–Professional Corporation Services Agreement
Reviewed an MSO–professional corporation services arrangement, focusing on the management-services agreement, responsibility allocation and the relationship between the operating and professional entities.
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Liability Caps in Commercial Contracts: Allocating Risk Between Parties
Liability caps allocate negotiated commercial risk through defined cap measures, damages exclusions, tailored carve-outs, super-caps, indemnities, and separate limited remedies.
Daehoon Park · May 29, 2026
Technology Transactions
SaaS Contract Architecture: Making the MSA, SOW, SLA, DPA, and Security Terms Work Together
A SaaS deal is governed by a contract suite, not one document. The MSA, orders or SOWs, SLA, DPA, security terms, and online policies must assign each issue to one controlling provision and align operational commitments with remedies, liability, change control, and exit.
Daehoon Park · Apr 27, 2026
Technology Transactions
HIPAA Business Associate Agreements in Healthcare SaaS
Healthcare SaaS providers that handle PHI must execute a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement before any PHI access. Under the 2013 Omnibus Rule, Business Associates are directly liable for HIPAA violations—including Security Rule, breach notification, and subcontractor compliance obligations.
Daehoon Park · Apr 6, 2026