HIPAA Journal reports:
New research indicates virtually all U.S. hospitals have been using tracking software on their websites that captures visitor data, including health information, and transfers that information to third parties. The study – published this month in Health Affairs – was conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. They used the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey to identify hospitals and narrowed their study to nonfederal acute care hospitals with an emergency department, which were not ambulatory surgery centers or freestanding long-term care facilities – The websites of 3,747 U.S. hospitals were assessed in the study.
Read more at HIPAA Journal.
h/t, Joe Cadillic