https://consential.io/blogs/ Consent, tracking and access on medical practice websites. en-us https://consential.io/blogs/google-consent-mode-basic-vs-advanced/ https://consential.io/blogs/google-consent-mode-basic-vs-advanced/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent Google Consent Mode Basic or Advanced is decided by how your tags were installed, not by a setting. How to tell which you have, and what each one costs. https://consential.io/blogs/trackers-on-almost-every-practice-website/ https://consential.io/blogs/trackers-on-almost-every-practice-website/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research The trackers on practice websites we find most: analytics, ad pixels, tag managers, chat, call tracking and embeds. What each is and where it belongs. https://consential.io/blogs/anatomy-of-a-pre-consent-data-leak/ https://consential.io/blogs/anatomy-of-a-pre-consent-data-leak/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Research Tracking before consent on a real practice site, request by request: six trackers, seven cookies, no consent platform, and what each request carried. https://consential.io/blogs/what-a-screen-reader-announces-practice-website/ https://consential.io/blogs/what-a-screen-reader-announces-practice-website/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accessibility What a screen reader announces on a typical practice website, taken from real scan findings: frame, link, edit blank, and what each one costs a patient. https://consential.io/blogs/why-accessibility-overlays-dont-fix-it/ https://consential.io/blogs/why-accessibility-overlays-dont-fix-it/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accessibility Accessibility overlays promise a one-line fix. What they can and cannot repair at runtime, why users object, and what to do with the budget instead. https://consential.io/blogs/wcag-21-aa-practice-website-common-failures/ https://consential.io/blogs/wcag-21-aa-practice-website-common-failures/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accessibility The common WCAG failures on medical practice websites, ranked by what scanning actually finds, with the page-builder components that produce each one. https://consential.io/blogs/ada-website-complaints-medical-practices/ https://consential.io/blogs/ada-website-complaints-medical-practices/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Accessibility Website accessibility for medical practices has two tracks: unpredictable ADA claims, and a federal rule with named standards and fixed compliance dates. https://consential.io/blogs/call-tracking-dni-medical-site-consent/ https://consential.io/blogs/call-tracking-dni-medical-site-consent/ Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent Call tracking and HIPAA: the swapped number, the session identifier and the recording are three different questions. Which one actually creates exposure. https://consential.io/blogs/embedded-form-iframe-consent-gap/ https://consential.io/blogs/embedded-form-iframe-consent-gap/ Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent Embedded forms and consent: why a scheduling or intake iframe sits outside your consent gate, what still leaks around it, and the options that actually work. https://consential.io/blogs/do-not-sell-or-share-link-medical-practice/ https://consential.io/blogs/do-not-sell-or-share-link-medical-practice/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT State Law Whether a medical practice needs a Do Not Sell link turns on a definition far wider than money changing hands, and on which HIPAA exemption your state wrote. https://consential.io/blogs/nevada-vs-washington-consumer-health-data/ https://consential.io/blogs/nevada-vs-washington-consumer-health-data/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT State Law Nevada and Washington health data laws compared: scope, consent, geofencing and enforcement, and the one difference that changes your risk calculation. https://consential.io/blogs/my-health-my-data-act-practice-website/ https://consential.io/blogs/my-health-my-data-act-practice-website/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT State Law The My Health My Data Act reaches practices outside Washington, has no size threshold, and carries a private right of action. What it means for your site. https://consential.io/blogs/state-consumer-health-data-laws-map/ https://consential.io/blogs/state-consumer-health-data-laws-map/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT State Law Consumer health data laws are a separate family from comprehensive state privacy laws. What each covers, how the HIPAA exemption works, and where it stops. https://consential.io/blogs/wordpress-elementor-where-tracking-tags-load/ https://consential.io/blogs/wordpress-elementor-where-tracking-tags-load/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent The five places tracking tags on WordPress load: theme, plugins, tag manager, Elementor custom code and embedded widgets. Which a banner can reach. https://consential.io/blogs/consent-mode-is-not-tag-blocking/ https://consential.io/blogs/consent-mode-is-not-tag-blocking/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent Consent mode vs tag blocking: one instructs a script that already loaded, the other prevents it loading. Why that difference decides what leaves your site. https://consential.io/blogs/consent-mode-v2-healthcare-advertisers/ https://consential.io/blogs/consent-mode-v2-healthcare-advertisers/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Consent Consent Mode v2 for healthcare advertisers: what the four signals govern, what conversion modelling recovers, and why it is not a substitute for gating. https://consential.io/blogs/meta-pixel-healthcare-litigation-what-was-alleged/ https://consential.io/blogs/meta-pixel-healthcare-litigation-what-was-alleged/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking What the Meta Pixel healthcare lawsuits alleged, the technical mechanism behind them, and why breach notifications tell a clearer story than the verdicts. https://consential.io/blogs/do-you-need-a-baa-with-your-analytics-vendor/ https://consential.io/blogs/do-you-need-a-baa-with-your-analytics-vendor/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking When you need a BAA with your analytics vendor, in six ordered questions: who is a business associate, what triggers the contract, and what to do at no. https://consential.io/blogs/google-analytics-4-patient-facing-site/ https://consential.io/blogs/google-analytics-4-patient-facing-site/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking Running Google Analytics on a medical website: what GA4 actually receives, why the BAA question decides it, and which pages carry the real exposure. https://consential.io/blogs/ocr-online-tracking-bulletin-explained/ https://consential.io/blogs/ocr-online-tracking-bulletin-explained/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking The OCR tracking bulletin was issued in 2022, revised, then partly vacated in 2024. What a federal court struck, what still stands, and how to date advice. https://consential.io/blogs/what-counts-as-phi-on-a-website/ https://consential.io/blogs/what-counts-as-phi-on-a-website/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking What counts as PHI on a website, element by element: IP addresses, page URLs, cookie IDs and form fields, and why the same field can be regulated or not. https://consential.io/blogs/does-hipaa-apply-to-your-website/ https://consential.io/blogs/does-hipaa-apply-to-your-website/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT HIPAA and Tracking HIPAA website tracking turns on two questions: are you a covered entity, and is what you collect PHI. What the rule says, and what a 2024 ruling changed.