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Vast majority of US hospital websites are sharing visitor data with Big Tech companies | HIPAA be damned
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently analyzed 100 non-federal acute care hospitals (those with an emergency room) across the country and found that a whopping 96...
Facepalm: HIPAA privacy rules are a big deal in the healthcare industry, and it only seems natural that those protections would extend to all aspects of a patient's experience. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently analyzed 100 non-federal acute care hospitals (those with an emergency room) across the country and found that a whopping 96 percent transmitted user information to third parties. Ari Friedman, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of the study, told The Register that the findings are incomprehensible.
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