Industry Focus
Legal and Regulatory Expertise for Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
As health industry data grows in size and complexity, FTI Technology helps organizations better govern, secure, find, analyze and rapidly make sense of information.
How We Help
From implementing data privacy programs and evaluating legal hold obligations, to consolidating business data and applications during a merger or divestiture, our team is adept at building defensible solutions around the diverse needs of the healthcare industry.
From small engagements around specific regulations to ongoing managed services, we work closely with in-house legal, IT and compliance teams to meet the production requirements and specifications of the various agencies. Our strengths include:
Our Strengths Include:
Reducing Cost and Risk With Information Governance
- Data privacy advisory
- Expert staff augmentation and secondment
- Data remediation & defensible disposition of data debris
- Corporate integrity agreement support
- Optimization of Microsoft 365 applications
- Records retention technology and policies
- Legal holds
Flexible And Practical E-discovery Services
- Data collection & forensic investigations
- Managed review, including foreign language
- Contract intelligence
- E-discovery consulting
- Cross-border / data privacy
- Second request expertise
- E-discovery managed services
- Advanced analytics
Legal Integration Expertise For M&A And Divestitures
- Data privacy advisory
- Expert staff augmentation and secondment
- Data remediation & defensible disposition of data debris
- Corporate integrity agreement support
- Optimization of Microsoft 365 applications
- Records retention technology and policies
Recent Engagements
Reduce data footprint and future risk at BCBSN
A custom content management solution indexed forty-three terabytes of data, allowing Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to assign security protocols and prepare for any future legal challenges.
Defensible disposal of one billion emails
A global corporation achieved successful data remediation and defensible disposal across a set of more than one billion emails. Additionally, they identified a cost savings of $10 million by disposing of 750 million emails. Automatic retention and deletion workflows were also created to achieve ongoing regulatory compliance.
GDPR program for healthcare tech company
A global healthcare technology company developed a prioritized roadmap to achieve GDPR compliance and embed privacy within business-as-usual (BAU) processes. This included training, a data protection impact assessment, supporting technical teams to develop privacy functionality within their platform and processes for meeting data subject access rights.
Corporate integrity agreement support
Our experts assisted an in-house compliance team in meeting the robust obligations of a new corporate integrity agreement (CIA). They established workflows to preserve and collect data from various systems, people and company policies, and then flagged potential issues for compliance review. Using advanced visual analytics to identify trends and patterns in marketing activities and behaviors, the company obtained timely extracts of data and hugely reduced the burden for the in-house compliance team.
Legal integration services for mergers and divestitures
A global entity, in the midst of a large merger and divestiture transaction, tapped our team to develop processes and playbooks to conduct future legal hold requests with little disruption to the company. Most importantly, the improved data governance framework created an overall stronger risk posture for the new organization.
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Case Study
In a large bankruptcy matter, FTI Technology’s Contract Solutions experts identified and quantified risk and opportunities across a company’s contract population, to support recovery efforts by a group of lenders acquiring the emerging entity.
Case Study
Following a 2019 Food & Drug Administration recall of a drug that was thought to contain a harmful contaminant, numerous lawsuits were filed against the pharmaceutical manufacturer in multiple states. The matter eventually consolidated into class action litigation, triggering a widespread investigation spanning three countries. Over the course of more than 18 months, FTI Technology’s Digital Forensics & Investigations team conducted the investigation across numerous facilities and more than 80 custodians, overcoming complex challenges relating to cross-border data transfer issues, Chinese state secrets restrictions and global data privacy regulations.
Case Study
The Information Governance, Privacy & Security practice within FTI Consulting’s Technology segment was engaged to lead HIPAA Security Rule risk assessments for several U.S. entities owned by a German-based medical device company.
Case Study
In a merger between two healthcare industry companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a quick look as part of the second request process. Working under a compressed timeline, outside counsel engaged FTI Consulting to quickly structure a review and stabilize the Brainspace Technology Assisted Review (TAR) model so the parties could determine the risk level of overproducing and prepare the dataset for production to the FTC. A first set of documents had been submitted to regulators, with a second production due just as the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. and self-isolation orders were being implemented.