96% of hospitals share website data: Study

(By Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Ninety-six percent of non-federal acute care hospitals’ websites share user data with third-parties, an April 11 study published in JAMA Network Open found.

Hospital websites often use tracking technologies that can capture user information and transmit it to third parties such as Google or Snapchat. Continue reading here…

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