Informed consent reflects the legal proposition that patients have the right to make decisions about their care and treatment on sufficient, reliable, and meaningful information. Ideally, informed consent should be arrived at via a collaborative and interactive process between a healthcare provider and their patient(s), with plentiful opportunity for patient questions and discussion.

Helping people is often a primary motivation for healthcare providers’ entry into their industry. Accompanying those good intentions sometimes is a desire to provide free care to those patients and communities who need it.

Frequently, healthcare founders and business owners overlook the important step of effectively assigning intellectual property. Missing this can result in questions over intellectual property ownership. It can also expose missing intellectual property ownership rights for the company.

Colorado’s 2026 legislative session is now underway, with several key bills introduced affecting healthcare providers and facilities. One bill that should be top of mind for healthcare stakeholders is SB 26‑041, concerning Consumer Protections in Transactions Involving Medical Care Entities (“SB 41”). If passed, SB 41 would have substantial impacts upon Colorado’s healthcare transaction landscape.