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The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board levied sanctions worth about $2 million in fiscal 2013 on groups ranging from DuPage Medical Group, one of the largest physicians groups in the state, to Roseland Community Hospital, a financially struggling safety-net facility on Chicago's...
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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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A federal judge dismissed the heart of a surgical center's antitrust suit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and a Downstate hospital network in a case that challenges a common insurance payment practice.
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The CEO and a physician at Mobile Doctors, a Chicago-based provider of physician house-call services in six states, were arrested in connection with an alleged Medicare fraud scheme involving upcoding for in-home visits and falsely certifying that patients were confined to their homes.
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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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Physicians say they like to use medical scribes to handle EHR data entry because they find EHRs slow and clunky to use, interfering with their interactions with patients.
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Public health departments can add another tool to their arsenal in tracking food poisoning: Twitter.
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Afraid there may be peanuts or other allergens hiding in that cookie? Thanks to a cradle and app that turn your smartphone into a handheld biosensor, you may soon be able to run on-the-spot tests for food safety, environmental toxins, medical diagnostics and more.The handheld biosensor was...
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Nothing personal. But your physician really doesn't want you to e-mail him, according to a new study. Patients said e-mails save them time, and health groups reported improved patient-satisfaction scores when their doctors used e-mail to communicate with patients, according to research by a Weill...
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