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Gina Bertolini

Partner (attorney), K&L Gates, LLP

Gina Bertolini is a health care regulatory attorney with over twenty years of experience advising health care providers, including large health systems, academic medical centers, and ancillary providers. Gina advises health care clients on health care privacy and security, fraud and abuse, digital health, and complex commercial health care contracting matters. Gina frequently advises on the complex interplay between privacy, technology, and health care. In the digital health space, she assists health care providers and technology companies in navigating federal and state regulations related to the provision of care via telemedicine, including corporate practice of medicine (CPOM), state licensure, privacy, and state and federal laws for treating and prescribing via remote modalities. In the data privacy and security space, she advises on federal and state privacy laws, structures health care data transactions for clinical, commercial, and research purposes, and has managed multiple health system data breaches, from initial mitigation and investigation to interfacing with government regulators and developing notice and response initiatives. Gina develops policies and trainings to address HIPAA, Information Blocking, and Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Records compliance, and has advised multiple health systems on the development of their electronic health record systems, including patient portals. Gina also assists health care providers with significant commercial contracting initiatives, including developing comprehensive suites of supply chain contracts and contract playbooks, structuring health system group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and purchasing collaboratives, and negotiating multi-million dollar commercial contract initiatives.

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