jonathan r. granade

• Counsel client on formation of managed service organization to provide IT and revenue cycle services to rural and health systems.
• Counsel clients on AI (artificial intelligence) laws, regulations, and executive orders in connection with data governance, HIPAA compliance, and innovation in technology, healthcare, and research.
• Advises data management software and service company in connection with software licensing and website terms of use and privacy policy agreements.
• Serves as outside general counsel to technology defense contractor in the augmented and virtual reality space.
• Served as lead counsel for IT and RCM service provider client to secure vendor agreements with approximately 100 vendors after client stepped in for bankrupt former service provider.*
• Counseled IT service provider client through data security incident, including legal and contractual reporting obligations and negotiations with customer regarding causation of incident.*
• Negotiated multi-million dollar, long-term, enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) license, service, and hosting agreement for multi-state health system operator.*
• Negotiated more than 10 multi-million-dollar information technology and/or revenue cycle transition services agreements in connection with national hospital system client’s purchase and sale of hospitals and associated clinics. These agreements allow the hospital seller to continue to provide RMC or IT services, applications, and licenses, including supplying and supporting the hospital's financial and clinical systems, until the buyer converts to its own systems.*
• Negotiated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) contract for nation-wide hospital operator.*
• Negotiated end-to-end revenue cycle management agreement for multi-state hospital system involving collections of nearly $3 billion in annual revenue.*
• Negotiated end-to-end revenue cycle management deal for multi-state hospital system with annual value of over $70 million.*
• Resolved a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) investigation into hospital's alleged violation of HIPAA "right to access" medical records complaint. This was the first "right to access" settlement with OCR after OCR's initiative making "right to access" an enforcement priority in 2019.*
• Negotiated enterprise-wide $50 million dollar master IT services and hosting agreement and business associate agreement between multi-state hospital system client and international IT service provider.*
• Negotiated enterprise-wide $2 million annual master services agreement, information security agreement, and business associate agreement between multi-state hospital system client and CMS consumer assessment of healthcare providers & systems (“CAHPS”) vendor.*
• Resolved a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights investigation into hospital client's alleged HIPAA violation without any fine, sanction, penalty, or corrective action plan being imposed.*

* Denotes experience prior to joining Parker Hudson.

• Presenter, “Sharing PHI During a Public Health Emergency: What You Should Know,” Healthicity webinar (March 3, 2021)
• Presenter, “Disclosing PHI for Law Enforcement and Public Health Purposes,” Quorum Health Resources webinar (2020)
• Presenter, “Negotiating Business Associate Agreements,” Quorum Health Resources Conference (2019)
• Presenter, “Update on a Patient’s Right to Access Medical Records and OCR Enforcement,” Hospital system compliance / privacy officer call (2019)
• Presenter, “When Big Brother Knocks: Sharing PHI with Law Enforcement” (2018)
• Presenter, “Sharing PHI with Lawyers, Litigants, and the Courts,” In-person presentation to compliance, privacy, HIIM, risk management, and legal departments of multi-state hospital system client (2018)
• Presenter, “Sources of Recovery and Liens,” National Business Institute CLE seminar (2015)
• Presenter, “Medical Liens and Other Third-Party Claims,” Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education seminar (2015)
• Presenter, “Sources of Recovery and Liens,” National Business Institute CLE seminar (2013)
• Presenter, “Treatment of Medical Liens,” National Business Institute CLE seminar (2011)