Heather Deixler counsels public and private companies on complex transactional and regulatory matters at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences, and technology.

Heather draws on extensive digital health industry experience to advise healthcare providers and healthcare systems, as well as digital health, e-commerce, medical device, therapeutics, genetics, and bioscience companies, on cutting-edge matters and initiatives involving:

  • Innovative healthcare delivery systems, including value-based enterprises, clinically integrated networks, independent physician associations, Medicare accountable care organizations, and other value-based payment programs
  • AI and machine learning solutions
  • Data rights
  • Data use and protection
  • Genomic privacy
  • General data privacy and security matters, including data privacy and security policies and procedures as well as online privacy policies and terms of service
  • Information blocking and interoperability
  • Real-world data and evidence generation
  • Data breach response

A practical problem-solver, Heather is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US and CIPP/E) and guides clients on all regulatory and legal aspects of digital health, including:

  • Stark Law, the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and state law equivalents
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
  • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
  • Federal Trade Commission Act
  • CAN-SPAM
  • Telemarketing laws
  • Self-regulatory and online behavioral advertising guidelines

A recognized leader at the firm, Heather serves on the Digital Health Task Force and the Data Privacy Committee.

Heather previously served as an adjunct professor in the University of Washington School of Law’s Health Law LLM program. Before attending law school, she worked as a research technician in a neurophysiology laboratory in Dijon, France, and as a clinical research assistant at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Heather's representative clients include:

  • Adventist Health
  • ArchiMed
  • Ascendis Pharma
  • Cerner Corporation
  • Clarify Health
  • CooperCompanies
  • Corcept Therapeutics
  • Crossover Health
  • Cryos
  • Curative
  • Decoded Health
  • DoorDash
  • eFFECTOR Therapeutics
  • Ginkgo Bioworks
  • GoodCell
  • GoodRx Holdings
  • GRAIL
  • Headspace
  • HCA
  • Imago BioSciences
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Modernizing Medicine
  • Nano X Imaging
  • Noom
  • NorthBay Healthcare Group
  • Oova
  • Owlet Baby Care
  • Overjet
  • P3 Health Partners
  • Pendulum Therapeutics
  • PharMerica
  • pMD
  • Preventice Solutions
  • Revival Health
  • Revolution Medicines
  • Seres Therapeutics
  • Summerbio
  • Treace Medical Concepts
  • Varian Medical Systems

Heather’s recent experience includes advising:

  • Startup companies launching in the US on compliance with US data privacy and security laws
  • Medical device companies to develop online privacy policies and terms of use, consumer health data privacy policies, and data use strategies
  • Digital health companies on implementing AI technologies and AI governance strategies in accordance with US data privacy laws 
  • A healthcare venture capital company on implementing its data right strategy and drafting commercial contracts for its innovative healthcare services platform 
  • Global pharmaceutical companies on the review of clinical trial documentation, including informed consent forms and clinical trial agreements
  • A leading e-commerce platform on emerging data privacy laws and compliance matters
  • A leading provider of specialty-specific electronic health records systems and solutions on AI-related matters, as well as on structuring and negotiating a novel real-world data business line 
  • An AI-leveraged health prediction company on data privacy, regulatory matters, and negotiating strategic partnerships
  • An innovative telehealth and at-home lab testing company on license agreements and strategic collaboration agreements 
  • Astorg and OPEN Health on data protection matters related to the acquisition of The CM Group, an integrated commercialization platform

Publications

  • “Will You Share My Data, Please?”, co-authored with Ty Kayam, The SciTech Lawyer, Vol. 17, No. 4, (June 2021)
  • “Chatbots Meet COVID-19, Why Lawyers Should Pay Attention,” co-authored with Karen Silverman, The SciTech Lawyer, Vol. 17., No. 1, Fall 2020, AI and Healthcare (September 2020)
  • “HHS’ Sweeping Interoperability and Information Blocking Final Rules Bring Patient Health Data Access into the 21st Century,” AHLA Weekly Alert (March 2020)

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of Washington School of Law, 2007
  • MPhil, University of Cambridge, 2000
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania, 1998

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French