Compliance in Strategic Partnerships

In an era of rapid transformation, health systems are embracing partnerships to spark innovation, expand services, and boost efficiency. But the line between a partnership that drives growth and one that drains resources often comes down to a single factor: embedding health policy expertise from the very beginning. Why Policy Matters Strong partnerships weave innovation into clinical, operational, and regulatory frameworks. Policy experts help align initiatives with value-based care, ensure HIPAA compliance, secure CMS reimbursement, and anticipate state and federal shifts. Data shows these partnerships achieve 60% higher success rates and face 45% fewer regulatory hurdles; delivering sustainable growth, stronger outcomes, and organizational resilience. The Cost of Getting It Wrong Ignoring the policy landscape can be disastrous. A $30M telehealth investment failed when it didn’t meet CMS billing rules. An AI diagnostics venture collapsed over licensing gaps. Nearly 40% of health-tech collaborations fail within two years due to regulatory misalignment, with average losses topping $15M. These failures mean not just wasted capital but disruption and lost trust. The Role of the Health Policy Expert Policy professionals translate complex regulation into strategy, guiding procurement, compliance, and scalability. Their involvement ensures partnerships are grounded in foresight, not assumption. At Rickshaw Health, we help leaders turn collaborations into lasting impact; ensuring partnerships drive sustainable outcomes for both organizations and patients. #HealthPolicy #DigitalHealth #StrategicPartnerships #HealthInnovation #HealthLeadership #HealthSystems #RegulatoryCompliance #ValueBasedCare

Managing risk, including compliance risk, in connection with fintech partnerships is more complex than doing so in the context of direct distribution or traditional vendor relationships. Regulators and banks alike now regularly acknowledge that complexity, and duly recite the need for enhanced third-party risk management. But the “why” and the “how” are still not well-understood. The recent request for information on bank-fintech partnerships includes a line that gets at an important core truth about bank-fintech partnerships, and why oversight of such partnerships is difficult: they “may present the full spectrum of risks facing banks.” When we talk about “third-party risk management” of bank-fintech partnerships, we are really talking about managing potentially the entire range of risk and compliance issues–but doing so through a third-party risk management lens. This may sound obvious, but it is difficult to implement in practice and highlights an important reason the regulatory guidance on third-party risk management feels so incomplete when it comes to bank-fintech partnerships. For example, the guidance still focuses on the lifecycle of a service-provider relationship, not the lifecycle of offering a bank product. Start, instead, with the product and customer lifecycles. At every step in those lifecycles you must ask: What are the requirements? What are the bank’s standards? Who is responsible for each task? And (for everything the bank is *not* doing) how is the bank going to make sure that activities meet bank standards? The picture gets clearer but vastly more complicated. It’s not hard to see how doing this right can lead to significant duplication of effort, and how thinking narrowly about “third-party risk management” can lead to things slipping through the cracks.

𝗜𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲... One of my key takeaways from my time at Microsoft is the power of partnerships. It's the partner ecosystem that fueled their march to $4T and beyond. That's why as we at Aileron Group LLC help our clients navigate the AI era, I'm thrilled to announce our upcoming series with Ray Watts of Neutral Partners and Patrick Sullivan, VP of Strategy & Innovation at A-LIGN. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Most organizations today are caught between two extremes: moving fast with AI (and accepting compliance risks), or moving slowly (and falling behind). Our joint series shows there's a third way: 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲. Ray brings deep expertise in cybersecurity and compliance operations, grounded in his Navy and NSA background. Patrick, a Forbes Technology Council member and TEDx speaker, leads strategic innovation at A-LIGN and specializes in AI governance and unified compliance frameworks. Together, we'll share exactly how leading organizations are implementing ISO 42001 to turn AI compliance into competitive advantage - without slowing down innovation. Link to announcement in comments below. 𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂: Are partnerships key to your AI strategy? #AIImplementation #Partnerships #ISO42001 #AICompliance #CyberSecurity