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2 www.lexpert.ca Editorial fortuna favet fortibus ISSUE 23.02 > JUNE GLOBAL MANAGING EDITOR Tim Wilbur SENIOR EDITOR Zena Olijnyk EDITOR Aidan Macnab PRODUCTION PROCESS LEAD Alina Leigh PRODUCTION EDITOR Wen-Ching Shang PRODUCTION EDITOR Kel Pero WRITERS Kiezzsa Cruz, Annabel Oromoni, Lucy Saddleton DESIGNERS Khaye Cortez, Loiza Razon PRESIDENT Tim Duce VP, MEDIA & CLIENT STRATEGY Dane Taylor SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS Steffanie Munroe, Lynda Fenton BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Maurice Phillips ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Matthew Oriel Lexpert Special Edition Magazine is published four times a year. KEY MEDIA and the KEY MEDIA logo are trademarks of Key Media IP Limited, and used under licence by Key Media Canada (Law) Ltd. LEXPERT is a trademark of Key Media Canada (Law) Ltd. Key Media Canada (Law) Ltd 317 Adelaide Street West, Suite 910 Toronto, ON M5V 1P9 Tel: (416) 609-8000 Fax: (416) 609-5840 Website: www.lexpert.ca All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted without written permission. Lexpert® Magazine is printed in Canada. PUBLICATION MAIL REGISTRATION NO. 41261516. ISSN1488-6553 Copyright© Key Media Canada (Law) Ltd All rights reserved. GST/HST#: 79989 8465 RC-0001 EDITORIAL INQUIRIES tim.wilbur@keymedia.com SUBSCRIPTIONS/ADDRESS CHANGES Contact: Donnabel Reyes at (647) 374-4536 ext. 243 or email donnabel.reyes@keymedia.com. Annual subscription costs C$175. To change your subscription address, please send your new address along with a copy of your mailing label(s) to the Subscription Dept., at the address indicated above. For all other circulation inquiries, please email Donnabel Reyes. T his year, we have combined two industries – technolog y and health sciences – into one Special Edition. While they are distinct, they also intersect in fundamental ways. Many of the legal practitioners who advise leading tech companies also advise health sciences businesses, whether on intellectual property or corporate or regulatory law. But it is not just for legal advisors that health and tech inter- sect – it is for the companies themselves. "We've been seeing the crossover between information technology compa- nies and health care-related companies applying AI and machine learning to solve health care-related problems," says Chad Bayne at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (p. 8). He says this intersection can range from medical devices to therapeutics to patient management and triage. "Properly harnessing AI technolog y will have huge ramifications for improving our health care system, making it more efficient," says Danielle Miller Olofsson at Stikeman Elliott LLP (p. 8). In other words, health science companies are behaving more like technology companies, improving efficiencies on a large scale. e reverse is occurring as well. Where health companies have always tackled complex regulatory requirements, tech purchasers are now integrating these requirements when negotiating their service contracts. Large-scale technology users must now deal with tightening rules and regu- lations, and fitting their compliance needs into their contract negotiations with third-party vendors has become an essential part of the process, tech lawyers say. As cybersecurity, privacy, and the overall robustness of technology and so- ware systems become a focal point for regulators, and regulated companies, the language of the negotiated contracts becomes "much more granular," says Imran Ahmad at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (p. 7). "I think that for a long time, these contracts with third-party vendors were looked at through a business operations lens," says Nathan Schiessel at MLT Aikins (p. 6). "However, now it is also about meeting regulatory compliance standards. It will require a bit of a shi in thinking for both customers and service providers when they're working on their contracts." is shi in thinking is happening on both sides of the health and technology aisle – and increasingly blurring boundaries between the two industries. e lawyers in these pages can provide clarity as companies navigate the shis. Tim Wilbur, global managing editor The blurring line between technology and health sciences