With more than 20 years of working with healthcare industry clients, Lynn Sessions focuses her practice on healthcare operations and regulatory work, with an emphasis on healthcare privacy and data security, breach response, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. Having previously served as in-house counsel and director of several departments at a nationally ranked children’s hospital, Lynn collaborates closely with healthcare clients and approaches her legal representation from a client’s perspective.
Lynn is a frequent speaker on a range of topics affecting health industry clients, including HIPAA compliance, data breach response, cyber and network security, enterprise risk management, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), handling adverse patient events, and insurance and risk financing. Lynn is also a regular contributor to BakerHostetler’s “Data Privacy Monitor” blog, available at www.dataprivacymonitor.com, as well as the Health Law Update.
Privacy and Data Security
- Has handled more than 550 healthcare data breaches, including several of the largest breaches reported to date. In her representation, provides counsel to healthcare providers and other covered entities on breach analysis; breach response; crisis management with patients, media and employees; and regulatory notification obligations to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general.
Operations and Regulatory Practice
- Regularly advises hospitals on EMTALA.
- Conducted an audit of a top children’s hospital’s risk management department and advised on departmental and operational changes for improved function within the hospital.