Partner Mel Soliz was recently invited to speak at two high-profile industry events: the 43^rd annual HIPAA Summit and The Sequoia Project’s latest privacy and consent webinar. In her sessions, she and fellow health data privacy leaders explored how patients’ privacy and consent preferences can be operationalized in digital and networked environments.

• HIPAA Summit: At the three-day virtual conference convening health data privacy leaders from across the country, Mel shared her insights in a plenary session entitled “Advancing Computable Consent in the Digital Healthcare Economy,” presented by The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She outlined where computable consent is headed and its implications for data use, governance, and trust as digital health infrastructure rapidly expands.
• The Sequoia Project Workgroup Webinar: Mel also spoke at the “Privacy and Consent Workgroup’s Guidance to States: An Overview” webinar, which drew one of The Sequoia Project’s largest national audiences to date. As Co-Chair of the workgroup, she broke down state-level challenges influencing health data exchange and the opportunity for states to adopt model legislation that standardizes what it means to share sensitive data in digital environments.

Mel’s practice focuses on compliance with state and national data privacy, access, and interoperability laws, health IT/technology service contracting, complex data sharing platform design, HIN/HIEs. She regularly speaks in local and national engagements on these topics and has been active in state and federal policymaking on data privacy and HIE issues. She is President of the Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys and regularly lauded by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, BTI Client Service All Stars, and Southwest Super Lawyers.

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