Healthcare AI Vendor Contracts: Customer and Vendor Negotiation Strategies, Risk Assessment, Key Provisions
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will examine the process for negotiating healthcare AI vendor contracts. The panel will discuss relevant regulatory considerations impacting product choice and risk assessment, advise on best practices for pre-negotiation and due diligence strategies, and address strategic considerations in negotiating key contractual provisions for AI vendors and healthcare AI customers.
Outline
- Introduction
- AI's expanding role in healthcare
- Regulatory considerations
- Pre-negotiation strategies
- AI vendor
- Use assessment
- Documentation
- Customer communication
- Healthcare AI customer
- Ethical and privacy considerations
- Data governance
- Systems monitoring
- Vendor due diligence
- AI vendor
- AI governance and risk assessment (HEAT Map, NIST, third-party certifications)
- Drafting the agreement
- Key provisions
- Data use and IP issues
- Practitioner takeaways
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important considerations:
- How does the evolving AI regulatory landscape impact a healthcare company's choice of third-party AI tools?
- What matters most for performance of vendor due diligence?
- What is involved in the risk assessment of third-party AI tools, particularly with respect to rights for data?
- What are key contractual provisions to best protect the healthcare AI customer? The vendor?
Faculty

Carolyn V. Metnick
Partner
Sheppard Mullin
Ms. Metnick is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office and a member of the... | Read More
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).
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Kathleen M. (Katie) O'Neill
Attorney
Sheppard Mullin
Ms. O'Neill represents medical groups, independent practice associations, management services organizations,... | Read More
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.
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