Heather B. Deixler

Heather Deixler counsels public and private companies on complex transactional and dynamic regulatory matters at the intersection of privacy, AI, and value-based care.

Heather delivers trusted advice to healthcare providers and healthcare systems, as well as digital health, e-commerce, medical device, therapeutics, genetics, and bioscience companies. A practical problem-solver, she develops innovative and compliant solutions to the ever-evolving issues around:

• Innovative healthcare delivery systems, including value-based enterprises, clinically integrated networks, independent physician associations (e.g., CMMI ACCESS Model, ACO REACH), 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

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)
• Consumer Health Data Privacy Laws (e.g., My Health My Data Act)
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

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.