Fierce Healthcare April 3, 2023
Nearly all nonfederal acute care hospitals’ websites track and transfer data to a third party, potentially fueling the unwanted disclosures of patients’ sensitive health information and opening up that hospital to legal liability, according to a recently published University of Pennsylvania analysis.
The census of more than 3,700 hospital homepages found at least one third-party data transfer among 98.6% of the websites as well as at least one third-party cookie on 94.3%, researchers wrote in Health Affairs.
The hospitals’ homepages had a median of 16 third-party transfers, more of which were found among medium-sized (100 to 499 beds) hospitals, nonprofit hospitals, urban hospitals, health system-affiliated hospitals and those that weren’t serving the largest portion of patients in...
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