Stephen W. Bernstein is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Boston office. He is head of the Firm’s Health Industry Advisory Practice Group. He specializes in e-health, deployment of electronic health record systems, health related matters impacted by the Internet and HIPAA, as well as mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and joint ventures in the hospital and physician areas. Stephen has particular experience working with regional electronic health record collaborations as well as pharmaceutical, biotech, device companies, health care providers and insurers concerning uses of health information for clinical and database research, product/disease registries and marketing matters, electronic health record development and implementation, including as these endeavors relate to personalized medicine. In the transactional arena, Stephen has extensive experience advising academic medical centers and hospitals, large, multi-specialty physician practice groups both within and outside of the tax-exempt sectors as well as venture capital/private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies.
