EP239: How to Escape From Legal Purgatory When Collaborating, With Bill Tanenbaum of Polsinelli

How to Escape Legal Purgatory When Collaborating in Health Care, With Bill Tanenbaum of Polsinelli (EP239) When a BAA Takes a Year to Sign for a Two-Week Project, Something's Broken. Episode 239. The legal side of any sale, install, collaboration, or interoperability effort in health care can be a serious impediment when every venture takes months or even years to get through contracting. In this episode, Stacey Richter talks with Bill Tanenbaum, co-chair of health care technology and innovation at Polsinelli, about practical advice for minimizing time spent in BAA and contracting purgatory so organizations can actually move forward on improving patient care. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ Why business associate agreements (BAAs) and other contracting steps can take far longer than the projects they're meant to enable ✅ How prolonged legal processes discourage organizations from innovating, even incrementally, whenever outside partners or alliances are involved ✅ Why the hassle and expense of switching vendors keeps organizations stuck with substandard or overcharging vendors ✅ Practical strategies for moving through contracting more efficiently without sacrificing the diligence it's meant to provide WHY THIS MATTERS Every month spent in contracting purgatory is a month patients don't benefit from a collaboration that could improve their care. Bill Tanenbaum's practical advice matters because the legal bottleneck isn't just an annoyance — it actively discourages the kind of cross-organizational innovation that health care badly needs. === LINKS === 🔗 Show Notes with all mentioned links: Episode Page ✉️ Enjoy this podcast? Subscribe to the free weekly newsletter 🫙 Support the podcast with a small donation to the Tip Jar 🎤 Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎤 Listen on Spotify 📺 Subscribe to our YouTube channel === CONNECT WITH THE RHV TEAM === ✭ LinkedIn ✭ Threads ✭ Bluesky ✭ X