(March 22, 2024, 3:23 PM EDT) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — Two U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials on March 21 asked a Texas federal court to grant them summary judgment on four health care plaintiffs’ claims that a recently released bulletin violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) or the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), explaining that the bulletin properly served as a reminder to health care providers that the use of certain third-party website technologies violates HIPAA’s privacy protections by sharing users’ individually identifiable health information (IIHI)....