User Information Sharing and Hospital Website Privacy Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Hospital websites frequently use tracking technologies that transfer user information to third parties. It is not known whether hospital websites include privacy policies that disclose relevant details regarding tracking.

Objective

To determine whether hospital websites have accessible privacy policies and whether those policies contain key information related to third-party tracking.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional content analysis of website privacy policies of a nationally representative sample of nonfederal acute care hospitals, hospital websites were first measured to determine whether they included tracking technologies that transferred user information to third parties. Hospital website privacy policies were then identified

SUBMITTER: McCoy MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009820 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature