Healthcare DIVE June 24, 2024
A federal court in Texas ruled regulators exceeded their authority in limiting providers’ use of online tracking technologies.
Dive Brief:
- The American Hospital Association and other provider groups largely won a lawsuit against federal regulators over government guidance limiting the use of third-party tracking technologies on providers’ websites.
- The hospitals filed suit in November, arguing the HHS’ guidance on trackers overstepped its authority and restrained providers’ ability to share health information with users.
- A judge in a Texas federal court on Thursday agreed and struck down that guidance, arguing the government had exceeded its authority under the HIPAA health privacy law.
Dive Insight:
Online trackers, or technologies that gather information about user behavior, are extremely common on...
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