Prevalence of Third-Party Data Tracking by US Hospital Websites

Joshua D Niforatos; Alexander R Zheutlin; Jeremy B Sussman

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26121

Prevalence of Third-Party Data Tracking by US Hospital Websites

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Sep 1;4(9):e2126121. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26121.

Authors

Joshua D Niforatos¹, Alexander R Zheutlin², Jeremy B Sussman^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁴ Center for Clinical Management Research, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁵ Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study compares the prevalence of third-party data tracking on websites of the largest and top-rated nonprofit and for-profit hospitals in the US.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cross-Sectional Studies
Hospitals / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Information Dissemination / methods*
Internet / statistics & numerical data*
Prevalence
United States

Grants and funding

R38 HL143605/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States