Innovative business ideas with digital products and services for the healthcare sector have the potential to reshape our society. We understand the needs of the healthcare industry and assist you, whether your company is in the start-up phase or involved in a transaction – always keeping an eye on the bigger picture. Our corporate law specialists work closely with our experts in Life Sciences & Health and IT/data protection law.

Precisely because legal regulations often cannot keep pace with the innovative power of companies in the field of digitalisation, it is important to keep an eye on current developments and find practical solutions. Our goal is always to make your business model legally compliant.

• Which digital functions are permissible and how can they be implemented securely?
• What should be considered when using AI?
• What opportunities and risks arise from new European regulations?

Statutory health insurers increasingly have to put Digital Health services out to tender. Our specialists have been successfully supporting the resulting specific challenges in the interaction between public procurement law and IT law in the healthcare sector for years.

Developing a health app has great potential , but what needs to be considered?

With one of the strongest IT and data protection legal teams on the market, we ensure that you set the right course for your products and ideas at an early stage. After all, in addition to knowledge of the regulatory framework, the correct handling of particularly sensitive patient data is a special challenge.

From health apps to digital health applications (DiGA)

When are health apps medical devices or in vitro diagnostics? What requirements must be met for a DiGA? What needs to be considered in terms of regulation, compliance and application? We support you with the realistic assessment of risks, costs and benefits and we find the best path for you. We accompany you from development to market launch and expansion, helping you to achieve your goals.

Social media and influencer marketing quickly reach numerous legal boundaries in the healthcare sector. Collaborations with health influencers are, therefore, complex and challenging. With our focus on branded content and influencer marketing on the one hand and the extensive experience of our experts in healthcare compliance and pharmaceutical advertising law on the other, we provide comprehensive advice and show you how to use social media and health influencers efficiently and in a legally compliant manner for your marketing.

Digitalisation is rapidly advancing in the hospital sector. At the same time, the requirements that have to be met by the hospital's IT infrastructure and the processing of patient data are ever-increasing. In addition, the number of technical links - for example between AIs and individual medical technology applications - is also increasing. The legal issues quickly become more complex if AI-based applications or apps with far-reaching access options are used. Where is the data located and how does the data exchange actually take place? Our experts will also be happy to help you establish legally compliant data protection in hospitals.