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Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar“Cost Saving in Device Procurement: Innovative Strategies on Physician Preference Items” explored...
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One warm night in mid-July, more than 4 million patient records breezed out the door of the Advocate Medical Group administrative office in the arms of an unidentified thief who stole four computers from the largest medical group in Illinois. The 1,100-physician medical group based in Park Ridge is...
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The recent massive data breach at Advocate Health Care has already had legal consequences. Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate and a subsidiary, Advocate Medical Group, are facing a state class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of two named plaintiffs and 4 million individuals whose personally...
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One warm night in mid-July, more than 4 million patient records breezed out the door of the Advocate Medical Group administrative office in Park Ridge, Ill., in the arms of an unidentified thief who stole four computers from the largest medical group in Illinois. The 1,100-physician medical group...
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Advocate Health Care officials and Park Ridge, Ill., police are investigating a burglary at an administrative building in the Northwest Chicago suburb that may have led to the release of information on 4 million patients.
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The Illinois state health facilities board today approved two hospital merger deals intended to reshape the landscape of healthcare in the suburbs.
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A lawsuit filed Thursday claims a not-for-profit hospital in northwest Chicago failed to provide charity care to two low-income, uninsured patients, reopening a longstanding controversy in Illinois over whether hospitals are doing enough charitable work to qualify for lucrative tax exemptions.
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Advocate Health Care is scaling back a proposed hospital tower in Oak Lawn, Ill., cutting the cost by 13%, to about $300 million, citing reduced demand for beds due to the federal overhaul of healthcare.
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Advocate Medical Group, Oak Brook, Ill., has named Dr. Chae On Chu as vice president of medical management for the group's central region.
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Race plays a role in how patients fare on some of the outcome measures included in Medicare's pay-for-performance programs.
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