4 health systems facing lawsuits for data breaches

Several hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are facing lawsuits regarding data breach incidents that involved patients' protected health information. 

Editors note: This article was updated on April 14 and will continue to be updated. 

Here are lawsuits involving four health systems as reported by Becker's since March 28.

April 14:

  1. A lawsuit claims that Greensburg, Pa.-based Excela Health improperly disclosed patients' protected health information to Facebook and Google.

  2. A lawsuit alleges that Clearfield County, Pa.-based Mount Nittany Health used pixels on its website that sent some patients' protected health information to Facebook and Google.

  3. A lawsuit filed April 3 alleges that Dallas-based Steward Health Care System's website used a Meta pixel tracking tool that sent some patient information to Meta and Google.

  4. An anonymous patient from Orlando Health filed a lawsuit March 16 alleging that the health system's website used pixel tracking technology that sent some patient information to Facebook.

March 21:

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