Healthcare Finance News November 3, 2023
OCR says the use of such tools violates HIPAA when the information collected includes protected health information.
The American Hospital Association, the Texas Hospital Association and nonprofit health systems Texas Health Resource and the United Regional Health Care System are suing the federal government over a rule prohibiting the use of online tracking technologies on providers’ public web pages.
The lawsuit against the Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
It challenges a December 2022 bulletin issued by the HHS Office for Civil Rights entitled “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.” The bulletin bars hospitals from...
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