American Hospital Association September 28, 2023
Congress should urge the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to immediately withdraw its new rule regarding so-called “online tracking technologies” and enact full federal preemption to the HIPAA privacy framework, AHA told Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, R-La., responding to his recent request for stakeholder input on health data privacy.
“As a result of the OCR rule, hospitals and health systems can no longer rely on a broad array of third-party technologies — from Google Analytics to YouTube or other video applications — that help them provide their communities with reliable health care information,” AHA wrote. “Not only does this OCR rule violate HIPAA and its implementing regulations,...
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