Elana R. Zana is an associate in the firm’s Business practice area, where she focuses her practice on healthcare, health information technology, general business, telecommunications, and corporate matters. Ms. Zana is the administrator of the Ogden Murphy Wallace Health Law Blog, located at www.omwhealthlaw.com. The focus of the blog is on both Washington State and national healthcare related laws, issues of note, health information technology, Critical Access Hospitals and healthcare reform.

 

Ms. Zana’s representative client experience includes assisting clients compute and assess HITECH funding opportunities and entitlements, advising clients on HIPAA Privacy and Security requirements, helping clients deploy identity theft prevention polices in compliance with the FACTA Red Flags Rule, drafting business associate and physician agreements, performing Stark compliance audits, analyzing certificate of need applications and representing clients in certificate of need related litigation, and assisting clients in patient data breach mitigation efforts, including drafting breach notification letters and strategizing with clients on how to avoid violations in the future. 

 

Ms. Zana represents municipal clients in negotiating and enforcing cable and telecommunications franchises, renewals, extensions, and transfers, drafting master cable and telecommunication ordinances, and cellular antenna and tower leases. Specifically, Ms. Zana has represented several consortiums of jurisdictions in negotiations with cable and telecommunications operators. Ms. Zana also represents non-municipal clients on both cable and telecommunications related agreements and leases.

 

Ms. Zana, a Seattle native, received a B.A. in Business Administration in 2004 from the University of Washington. She received her law degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law in 2007, where she served as Business & Marketing Editor of the Seattle University Law Review. During law school, Ms. Zana also externed for Judge Zilly in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

 

Ms. Zana is a member of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, American Health Lawyers Association, the Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys and the Washington State Bar Association. She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.