Connecting Healthcare with Technology
Market leaders and disrupters in the healthcare and health-tech industries are rapidly implementing cutting-edge digital health solutions and are encountering a broad range of legal and regulatory challenges and uncertainties along with commercial, reputational and other liability risks. By leveraging exponential growth in technology innovations and connectivity, businesses are able to implement effective solutions to both enhance and innovate patient diagnosis and care, facilitate general wellness and empower patients and consumers.
Werksmans is uniquely positioned to provide end-to-end, holistic advice on the complex legal issues which permeate healthcare, data and technology and the digitalisation of the healthcare sector. The extensive work we do in this highly specialised area of the law allows us to provide strategic, practical and pragmatic advice across the healthcare ecosystem, including to pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, medical facilities, medtech, healthtech and biotech businesses, data science businesses and investors in this sector, including private equity and venture capital firms.
Healthcare, Data and Technology
Our specialist team advises on healthcare and life sciences, healthcare regulation, technology, intellectual property, compliance and ethics, data privacy and data protection and data mining, analytics and commercialisation.
We provide clients in this sector valuable strategic advice on the digitised future of their businesses by guiding them through the complex web of legal challenges posed by the digitalisation of the healthcare industry both within South Africa and beyond its borders to other markets in which our clients operate.
