Mr. Smith is Chair of Davis Wright Tremaine's health law practice in the San Francisco office, and a member of the governing committee of the firm-wide health law practice. He has practiced business law for clients in the U.S. health care industry since 1982, representing hospitals, hospital associations, medical groups, and a variety of provider network organizations in corporate formation and governance, joint ventures, financing, reimbursement and regulation.
Mr. Smith also represents technology firms both within and outside the health care industry in business, financing, licensing and regulatory matters, including data privacy and security. He is co-chair of the firm's e-Health/HIPAA task force (www.ehealthlaw.com), which advises clients on the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and other e-health issues. Mr. Smith has authored several articles on HIPAA, and is co-author of the California Healthcare Association's forthcoming HIPAA Compliance Manual. He has spoken on HIPAA at numerous conferences, including the IBM/Modern Healthcare national conferences on HIPAA compliance, HIPAA Summits I, II and III, HIPAA West, and the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys.