Judge Vacates HHS Rule Over Health Care Providers’ Use Of Tracking Technology

(June 25, 2024, 9:00 AM EDT) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A standard established in two recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services subagency bulletins for determining when online tracking technology has gathered internet users’ individually identifiable health information (IIHI) in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was vacated by a Texas federal judge, who found that the guidance exceeded HHS’s authority under HIPAA and ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)....