Category: Health Tech

The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments last week on whether two nurses’ rights under the state’s biometric privacy law were violated when they were required to provide fingerprints to access patient medication from secure cabinets. Read More

Researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said last week that a genetic biomarker may be able to help predict the severity of food allergy reactions. Read More

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, joined forces last week on a plan to improve the medical device recall process. Read More

Chicago-based GE HealthCare will use more than $44 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop user-friendly, artificial intelligence–assisted ultrasound imaging tools.  Read More