Chicago is averaging fewer than 100 daily cases of COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic started, the city’s top health official said Tuesday.
Illinois has chosen Virginia-based CNSI to help modernize its Medicaid processing system, the company announced Tuesday.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 365 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the state’s total to 1,385,854.
Chicago plans to follow the rest of Illinois and fully reopen next week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
The number of Illinoisans hospitalized with COVID-19 has dropped below 1,000 for the first time since the Illinois Department of Public Health started tracking that data 14 months ago.
Chicago’s mHub incubator will partner with Baxter and Edward-Elmhurst Health Venture Capital to launch a new program to help support medtech companies.
Metopio’s goal is to make health data easy to access - “ridiculously easy," as CEO Will Snyder puts it.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,841 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the state’s total to 1,363,507.
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Illinois entered the "bridge" phase of Gov. JB Pritzker’s reopening plan Friday, with the potential for the state to fully reopen in four weeks.
Dr. J. Regan Thomas, a board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, was named last month president of the Illinois State Medical Society.
Top officials from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration told lawmakers Thursday that former leaders at the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs repeatedly informed them that COVID-19 protocols were being followed at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home, in contrast to what was later reported.
Lawmakers had a lengthy debate Thursday on a proposal to allow health professionals to share information as it relates to individuals with a serious mental illness.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,655 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total to 1,213,765.
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COVID-19 vaccine rates are on the rise among Black and Latinx Chicago residents, officials announced last week.
There are myriad ways for the healthcare industry to better address racism and inequities, officials said last Friday at a virtual panel hosted by the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.
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Over 4 percent of Illinoisans have now been fully vaccinated, according to recent data from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
