Hospital Groups Seek Fast End to Online Tracking Enforcement (1)

Health care industry groups urged a Texas federal judge to make an early ruling favoring their legal challenge against the US government’s enforcement of tracking tools to monitor users’ visits to public health websites, in a brief first reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

The group asked Judge Mark Pittman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas to prevent the agency from enforcing its newest data privacy guidance against its members in a brief filed Friday supporting their motion for summary judgment.

“A gross overreach by the federal bureaucracy, imposed without any input from healthcare providers or the ...