Aneesh Chopra, President Barack Obama’s former chief technology officer, thinks the healthcare industry has a “mindset” problem when it comes to patient data.
Sterigenics announced Thursday it has applied for permits with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade control measures at its Willowbrook facility, which has been closed since February due to ethylene oxide emissions.
The Supreme Court on Thursday put a hold on the U.S. Census including a question about citizenship.
Iowa-based UnityPoint Health signed a letter of intent to explore a merger with South Dakota-based Sanford Health, the two health systems announced Friday morning.
Swedish Covenant Health plans to join NorthShore University HealthSystem, the systems announced Thursday.
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is investigating four cases of Legionnaires’ disease in individuals who were at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, two of whom were patients within the past two months.
Swedish Covenant Health is planning to join NorthShore University HealthSystem, the systems announced Thursday.
Marion Hospital Corporation and Quorum Health Corporation plan to discontinue their obstetric services at Heartland Regional Medical Center.
Panelists discussed innovative ways they are addressing the social determinants of health - and what more can be done - at a panel this week convened by Health News Illinois in Chicago.
Providers and payers are increasingly optimistic that investing in the social determinants of health will pay off in the long run. But panelists at a Health News Illinois event Tuesday at MATTER in Chicago also stressed the need for more collaboration.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of 41 of his colleagues across the nation this week released a full, unredacted complaint against 20 national generic drugmakers named in a price-fixing lawsuit.
Illinois is officially the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana use.
Back pay that was approved in 2017 for more than 49,000 home healthcare workers will be sent out this week.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law Friday restrictions on ethylene oxide emissions that he says are the strictest in the nation.
A Department of Public Health official confirmed late last week they are investigating a complaint by a nurses union accusing the University of Chicago Medical Center of putting patient safety at risk by not staffing to necessary levels and failing to provide equipment such as IV pumps.
Cook County Health's Medicaid health plan CountyCare is not generating enough revenue to pay its bills each year and an "extraordinary" infusion from another source may soon be needed, according to a report released Friday by the county's Inspector General Patrick Blanchard.
