Global Privacy Considerations for Healthcare IT & FDA Regulated Startups

Darshan Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Darshan talks. My name is Darshan Kulkarni. As you all know, the goal of this podcast has always been to talk about the life sciences to talk about things that impact the life sciences. And one of the things that keep popping up is the idea of privacy, the evolving and emerging role of privacy and the discussions around it, and how that impacts the life sciences. And if you're in clinical research, if you are in marketing, if you are in PR, if you have if you are a medical device that has patient data, every single one of you are probably impacted by the discussion around privacy. Along the way, I, I follow a lot of really interesting people on LinkedIn. And one of the most interesting people I follow is an Amish shy Austrian. And Avishai is the head of privacy at axon. He is both a qualified privacy solicitor in England and Wales and also in Israel with a strong background in corporate commercial law. And, and what we're discussing is really how this all comes together and have a shot. Before I jump into some questions. Is there anything I missed? Would you like to answer any questions? clarify something I said or didn't mention? No, I think that was, first of all, thank you very much Darshan, for having me having me on the podcast, the chat always, always great to chat to friends all around the world. And that's what's amazing about this, this time that we're in now is that it's so easy just to hop on virtual chat and just Avishai have a conversation. So I love it. Darshan You never he never quite got this chance before. I'm gonna try. Let me ask you, oh, let's put some things out of the way. Because as lawyers, we kind of have to worry about this. This isn't legal advice. So if you're interested, I need legal advice. I wish I Why should they contact you? Avishai LinkedIn is a great place to find me. I'm very, very active there. So just drop me a line. And we'll we'll get the conversation started from there. Darshan Perfect. Um, so let's start with a couple of different questions. So we had a very brief conversation, as you know, started before the, this this starting the interview, and you talk to me about how you were born in Harrisburg. And, and yet here you are a solicitor in in Wales and the UK and and well, in England, Wales, and also in Israel. How does that all come together? Why Why did you come Bring these pieces together from a global perspective? And Yet, You're both not only an expert in, in privacy, but also corporate and commercial. So how do you bring that all together? Avishai Yeah, so a bit of a you highlighted a bit of my split personality there. But yeah, born in the US grew up in Israel, trained as a corporate and commercial lawyer went to law school here in Israel, trained as a corporate and commercial lawyer worked at one of the big firms and like every good young corporate lawyer, I did really everything I did, you know, high tech mergers and acquisitions, bit of antitrust even which was fascinating, and really fell in love with the area with privacy and data protection, and how basically how technology and the law, interact and sometimes clash with each other. And realize I wanted to develop my to have a career in this fascinating field, looked around at the Israeli privacy regulations and realized they weren't really the gold standard of privacy around the world. And they were talking about this new emerging regulation called GDPR. your listeners may be familiar with it, which is the privacy regulation that applies in the EU, that was supposed to be this new gold standard of privacy. And I said, great, you know, let's let's do that. And so I found the, you know,