Aaron Maguregui

Practice Areas

Sectors

Artificial Intelligence

Health Care & Life Sciences

Innovative Technology

Telemedicine & Digital Health

Practice Areas

Behavioral Health

Cybersecurity

Health Care

Health Care Regulatory

Intellectual Property

Privacy, Security & Information Management

Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, and Privacy

Professional Memberships

Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Member of the American Health Lawyers Association

Member of the Health Law Section of the Florida Bar

Chaired the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) Data Work Group in developing its Artificial Intelligence Principles (2023)

Co-chaired ATA’s Health Data Work Group’s Privacy Committee

Experience

Aaron Maguregui is the catalyst driving success for early-stage health tech startups, Fortune 500 health care organizations, digital health technology companies, health care AI innovators, and general counsels seeking expert legal guidance. As a leading digital health attorney and health care AI lawyer, Aaron specializes in health technology and patient engagement strategy, AI-driven innovation, e‑commerce and technology platform negotiations and transitions, and comprehensive privacy and data governance strategy. He was recently selected to serve as Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Committee for the American Telemedicine Association, reflecting his national leadership in the intersection of AI and virtual care. With more than a decade of experience, he helps digital health CEOs, health care attorneys, retail pharmacies, health and hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, and health care payors turn complex AI governance, HIPAA, TCPA, CMIA, CCPA, CPRA, state privacy, and telehealth regulations into strategic competitive advantages. By designing airtight HIPAA compliance programs, guiding secure e‑commerce platform migrations, implementing robust cybersecurity protocols, and negotiating seamless EHR and telehealth data sharing agreements, Aaron enables clients to accelerate product launches, build patient trust, and unlock new revenue opportunities.

Enterprise AI Transactions: Aaron structures and negotiates enterprise-wide AI licensing and services agreements for digital health companies and healthcare organizations, enabling deployment of foundational and agentic AI tools across clinical, operational, and product teams. He advises on platform access rights, integration workflows, intellectual property protections, and data use restrictions while embedding privacy safeguards and governance controls to support responsible and scalable AI adoption.

Accelerated Compliance & Privacy: Aaron empowers clients to launch HIPAA and TCPA compliant outreach campaigns, telehealth vendor agreements, and EHR contracts with minimal delays — minimizing audit risk and maximizing patient engagement.

EHR and Data Integration & Strategy: Aaron has led and negotiated large scale EHR implementation and integration contracts for primary care organizations, retail pharmacies, and health systems — ensuring interoperability, cybersecurity safeguards, and HIPAA compliance while accelerating go‑live timelines.

Telemedicine e‑Commerce Launch: Aaron directs direct‑to‑consumer telehealth providers through e-Commerce platform transitions, embedding secure billing workflows, HIPAA‑compliant user experiences, and robust data governance to drive patient acquisition.

AI Governance for Expansion: From health care AI startups to medical device manufacturers, Aaron develops AI governance frameworks and drafts HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA‑compliant data‑use agreements — enabling international scalability and fostering regulatory confidence.

Health Care Contracts & Supply Chain: As a seasoned health care contracts lawyer, Aaron structures master supply chain agreements and vendor contracts for digital health platform companies, retail pharmacies, and health IT vendors — optimizing procurement, mitigating data and privacy risks, and embedding data security requirements.

Telehealth Platform Negotiations: He leads negotiations for nationwide telehealth platform agreements, integrating virtual care into clinical workflows and ensuring telehealth regulatory compliance reducing time to market for virtual care services.

User‑Centered Digital Experiences: Aaron advises on the design of compliant, optimized user workflows and privacy controls for mobile health apps and telehealth websites. His expertise in FTC compliance, patient authentication protocols, and mobile app data security ensures regulatory adherence and superior patient experiences.

Practical and Results Focused Approach: Aaron combines his in-house legal experience at a Fortune 100 managed care organization with his global law firm practice experience to provide practical legal guidance on platform deployments, AI compliance, and multi‑state telehealth rollouts. He stays current on regulatory developments to help clients navigate challenges and implement solutions effectively.

Aaron’s blog and speaking engagements offer practical guidance on developing and implementing HIPAA compliance programs, navigating telehealth regulations, and leveraging AI‑driven legal strategies for digital health platform implementations. Read his latest articles for step‑by‑step advice on data governance frameworks, telehealth integrations, and cybersecurity protocols. For assistance with EHR and technology platform implementations, telehealth vendor contracts, health care AI governance, or HIPAA‑compliant mobile app design, contact Aaron to discuss how he can translate legal requirements into actionable, growth‑focused solutions.

Work Highlights

Representative Experience

Enterprise Licensing for Foundational AI Model: Negotiated an enterprise-wide technology agreement with a leading large language model provider to support internal deployment of generative AI tools across product, engineering, and operational teams. The transaction included broad licensing rights, model customization terms, integration support, and usage boundaries. The agreement also addressed data handling safeguards, internal use restrictions, and privacy compliance measures to support deployment across regulated environments.

Agentic AI Services and Integration Agreement: Structured a multi-year enterprise agreement with an agentic AI vendor delivering autonomous workflow capabilities for intake, patient support, and administrative operations. The engagement covered platform access, API integrations, intellectual property terms, and service level commitments. Privacy-related provisions included controls around system inputs and outputs, security standards for user data, and limitations on downstream use of customer data to mitigate regulatory and reputational risks.

EHR Agreement: Negotiated and structured a multi‑year EHR agreement for a national care delivery primary care organization, ensuring interoperability standards, cybersecurity safeguards, and HIPAA compliance across all clinic locations.

Platform Transition: Guided a direct‑to‑consumer telehealth company through the negotiation and transition to an e‑commerce subscription platform for telemedicine services, embedding secure billing workflows, HIPAA‑compliant UX, and robust data governance measures.

Retail Eyewear & Vision Services: Represented an international online retail eyewear company in the negotiation, launch, and ongoing compliance efforts of its virtual, technology-enabled vision services offering.

AI Governance: Advised a digital health startup on an AI governance framework and drafted GDPR‑ and CCPA‑compliant data‑sharing agreements for international expansion of a health care AI analytics platform.

GPO Contracting: Represented a global health care group purchasing organization, responsible for over 30 national health care entities, in re‑contracting efforts with its primary data analytics vendor, negotiating a primary data use licensing agreement, governance agreement, and master vendor services agreement to enhance data accessibility and compliance.

Telehealth Platform: Led the negotiation of a country‑wide telehealth platform agreement for a major health network, integrating virtual care services into clinical workflows and ensuring telehealth regulatory compliance.

UX Design: Designed and reviewed user journey workflows for a mobile mental health app, ensuring HIPAA privacy, secure authentication, and FTC‑compliant data collection practices.

Supply Chain Agreement: Structured a master supply chain agreement for a national pharmaceutical distributor, optimizing procurement processes and mitigating regulatory risk under CMIA and federal privacy laws.

Data Governance: Developed a data governance roadmap for a health care AI company, aligning algorithmic data usage policies with HIPAA, state AI regulatory requirements, and cloud data security best practices.

DTC Telehealth UX: Represented a large direct‑to‑consumer telehealth company in designing and developing user experience workflows, ensuring compliance with FTC regulations and enhancing patient acquisition and marketing effectiveness.

Retail Pharmacy EHR: Negotiated on behalf of a large retail pharmacy a complex EHR agreement, integrating specialty pharmacy systems with enterprise EHR platforms, ensuring HIPAA compliance, interoperability, and optimized medication dispensing workflows.

Platform Licensing: Represented a large retail pharmacy chain in negotiating a telehealth platform licensing agreement with a nationwide telehealth platform provider, ensuring privacy‑by‑design, cybersecurity safeguards, and PHI protection.

White Label Partnership: Represented a virtual care platform in negotiating with a pharmaceutical company to establish a white‑labeled direct‑to‑consumer telehealth offering, aligning branding, compliance, and operational workflows to streamline launch and patient engagement.

Education