Podcast | Culture Clashes: Getting Cross-Industry Collaborations Right

By Kerrin B. Slattery and Stephen W. Bernstein on October 31, 2019

A Collaborative Transformation Perspective on Digital Health

Healthcare is facing an age of disruption from new players and new market entrants from outside the traditional healthcare paradigm. These disruptors have varying degrees of experience in the highly regulated and closely scrutinized healthcare landscape. How can these parties work together across different cultures and regulatory environments to fashion better, faster, more accessible healthcare? In this episode of the Of Digital Interest podcast, Stephen Bernstein and Kerrin Slattery discuss:

Exciting new collaborations in the healthcare space
Challenges companies face as they work through cross-industry ventures, from diligence to regulatory mapping
Key considerations for data sharing and the use of de-identified data in digital health solutions
Navigating cultural differences between traditional providers and new non-traditional parties
Best practices for companies working to enter the healthcare space through collaborative ventures

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Kerrin B. Slattery
Kerrin Slattery maintains a diverse transactional practice focused on the representation of hospitals and health systems, as well as other health industry providers and investors across the country. Kerrin has significant experience in all aspects of health industry transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and system restructurings involving nonprofit hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, post-acute providers, large medical groups and other health care providers. She also advises health industry clients on accountable-care strategies and hospital-physician integration initiatives. Read Kerrin Slattery's full bio.

Stephen W. Bernstein
Stephen W. Bernstein specializes in e-health, “big data,” deployment of electronic health record systems and health-related matters affected by the internet and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as private equity investments, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and joint ventures involving technology, hospitals and physicians. Stephen is the global head of McDermott's Health Practice. Read Stephen Bernstein's full bio.