An urge to merge. Showing that wheeling and dealing is on their minds, health care general counsel in a recent survey cited mergers and acquisitions as their No. 1 priority in 2016. Some 94 percent of the GCs said that they are either involved or extremely involved in M&A activity.
Also weighing heavily on their minds is the risk of data breaches, with over two-thirds saying that they don’t believe their emergency preparedness plan covers all risk exposure adequately. The top risk they cited was cybersecurity.
