Healthcare IT News November 6, 2023
In a complaint filed in federal court in Texas, the hospital group says enforcement of the Office for Civil Rights’ regs on pixel tracking tools would disrupt the “balance that HIPAA and its regulations strike between privacy and information-sharing.”
The American Hospital Association and allies in Texas have sued the U.S. Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights seeking to block enforcement of a HIPAA guidance regarding online tracking technologies for customer relationship management.
WHY IT MATTERS
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, argued that the rule “precipitously upended the balance that HIPAA and its regulations strike between privacy and information-sharing” and also runs contrary to the practices of several federal healthcare websites.
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