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Six Healthcare Orgs Settle Pixel Privacy Lawsuits
- Source
- The HIPAA Journal
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Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Dental practices and DSOs that embed third-party tracking pixels on websites or patient portals face class-action exposure under state privacy statutes, and several dental entities are already named defendants in these settlements.
Key points
- 01
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. and three California hospitals agreed to stop using Google Analytics and Meta Pixel for five years and to create a Web Governance Committee that requires business associate agreements for any future tracking vendors.
- 02
Dental Intelligence, Inc., a Utah-based practice-management software vendor, and two of its client dental offices are defendants in Grivetti et al. v. Dental Intelligence, Inc. for allegedly transmitting patient data to Google through the LocalMed scheduling tool.
- 03
Fertility Centers of Illinois, a reproductive-endocrinology practice, settled a federal suit for a $375,000 fund covering individuals who accessed its website between September 1, 2020, and December 31, 2024.
- 04
Tenet Healthcare’s $16 cash plus two-year privacy-service settlement covers users of its patient portals and Healthelife app from January 1, 2017, through September 18, 2023.
Who should care
- Owner
- DSO
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