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Elizabeth Brim

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Washington +1 202 662 5850

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    Elizabeth Brim provides strategic advice to clients across the health care, life sciences, digital health, and technology sectors, helping them navigate complex privacy, regulatory, and compliance issues involving health and other personal information.

    Elizabeth advises clients on compliance with evolving privacy, data governance, and regulatory frameworks governing the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of health, genetic, consumer health, and other sensitive data. Her work includes counseling on HIPAA, state privacy laws, information blocking requirements, TEFCA, and other federal and state laws affecting health information, digital health technologies, and privacy compliance more broadly.

    Elizabeth’s experience spans a broad range of privacy, data governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory issues arising in connection with innovative products and services, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, clinical trials and research initiatives, strategic transactions, and commercial arrangements. She regularly advises clients on complex issues involving data governance, privacy compliance, and the protection and exchange of health and other sensitive information.

    Elizabeth also advises clients on related health care regulatory and compliance matters, including fraud and abuse, corporate practice of medicine, and other requirements affecting innovative care delivery models.

    Elizabeth maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes assisting nonprofit entities with data privacy compliance and vendor contracting.

    Elizabeth is an author of the American Health Law Association treatise, Pricing, Market Access, and Reimbursement Principles: Drugs, Biologicals and Medical Devices and the U.S. chapter of the Global Legal Insights treatise, Pricing & Reimbursement Laws and Regulations.

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    • Provides ongoing counseling to companies on privacy and data security laws, HIPAA compliance, incident response, and health care regulatory requirements.
    • Assists life sciences companies in structuring research activities to comply with HIPAA and other privacy requirements, including by reviewing clinical trial agreements, service provider agreements, informed consent forms, and authorizations.
    • Advises diagnostic and other life sciences companies on genetic privacy laws and strategies to manage privacy and ethical risks in connection with secondary use of data for research purposes.
    • Helps covered entities, employer-sponsored health plans, device manufacturers, and developers of digital health solutions assess their obligations under HIPAA, conduct compliance reviews, develop privacy and security programs, and negotiate business associate agreements.
    • Supports companies in developing strategic written comments and advocacy materials for engagement with legislators and regulators at the federal and state level on proposals to regulate health-related information.
    • Advises companies on the collection, use, sharing, and governance of real-world, clinical trial, and other health-related data in support of research, product development, and commercial activities.
    • Counsels clients on the use of health-related and other sensitive data to develop, train, deploy, and govern artificial intelligence solutions, including generative AI models.
    • Assists developers of direct-to-consumer health and wellness offerings to build privacy governance processes and draft appropriate notices and consents.
    • Advises clients on the design, implementation, and governance of data-sharing and interoperability initiatives, including compliance with information blocking requirements, TEFCA, and other laws governing the exchange of health information.
    • Supports clients on privacy, data governance, and health care regulatory due diligence in connection with M&A, private equity, strategic transactions, and commercial arrangements.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • The George Washington University Law School, J.D.
        • Order of the Coif
        • High Honors
        • The George Washington Law Review
    • The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
        • Certificate in Health Policy
    • The University of Chicago, B.A.
        • with General Honors
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    Previous Experience
    • Hon. Rudolph Contreras, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, Judicial Intern
    • Student Attorney, Family Justice Litigation Clinic, The George Washington University Law School
    • AmeriCorps Member

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