Healthcare IT News August 30, 2024
The American Hospital Association is applauding the Office for Civil Rights for opting not to appeal a district court decision that vacated its recent rule regulating online tracking technologies.
In less than 24 hours this week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services filed an appeal in American Hospital Association v. Becerra – a lawsuit that sought to bar enforcement of an Office for Civil Rights rule governing use of online tracking tools – and then promptly withdrew it.
The American Hospital Association, which has sought to protect its members’ ability to use the tracking tools, issued a statement Thursday in which Chad Golder, AHA’s general counsel, called the result a “victory.”
WHY IT MATTERS
While HHS had appealed...
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