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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights should finalize its proposed “commonsense” amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to support reproductive health care privacy, but immediately suspend or amend its December 2022 online tracking guidance, which “aggravates the risk of health misinformation by treating a mere IP address as a unique identifier under HIPAA,” AHA told the agency in comments submitted May 22.