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Rishi Shah, former co-founder and CEO of Outcome Health, arrives at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for his sentencing on June 25, 2024. Shah was convicted of fraud last year. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Judge likely to sentence former Outcome Health CEO Rishi Shah on Wednesday

June 25, 2024 at 6:25 p.m.

A federal judge will likely sentence former Outcome Health CEO Rishi Shah on Wednesday, after spending Tuesday hearing arguments and testimony about how much money clients and investors lost because...

Former Outcome Health CEO Rishi Shah arrives for the verdict in his criminal fraud trial at the Dirksen Courthouse on April 11, 2023. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Prosecutors recommend 15 years in prison for former Outcome Health CEO

June 17, 2024 at 5:27 p.m.

Rishi Shah is scheduled to be sentenced June 25, after a jury found him guilty on 19 of 22 counts in April 2023.

Ascension Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village on April 29, 2020. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Criminals likely stole personal information in Ascension cyberattack, health care system says

June 14, 2024 at 5:39 p.m.

The health system does not yet know exactly which data was stolen or from which patients.

Johnson's baby powder in a market in Pittsburgh on Jan. 26, 2023. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Illinois to get $29 million under Johnson & Johnson baby powder settlement

June 11, 2024 at 4:27 p.m.

Illinois is one of 42 states, plus Washington ,D.C., that alleged Johnson & Johnson deceptively promoted and misled consumers, in advertisements, about the safety of some of its talc powder...

Dr. Mugdha Mokashi in front of Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women's Hospital on June 3, 2024. Mokashi is an OBGYN resident and a bargaining committee member of the new residents' union. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Why are so many Chicago medical residents unionizing? Activity follows pandemic, shifting attitudes

June 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Thousands of residents and fellows in the Chicago area have voted to unionize in the last year, amid changes in the business of health care and frustrations that arose out...

The University of Chicago Medical Center on the South Side is on Nov. 16, 2007. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Information of 10,300 people may have been exposed in University of Chicago Medical Center email incident

May 30, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.

The email accounts of several hospital workers were accessed between Jan. 4 and Jan. 30, the hospital said.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy chats before a committee meeting at the Illinois Capitol building on Feb. 7, 2024. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois lawmakers pass bill to expand reporting of sexual abuse in health care settings following Tribune investigation

May 29, 2024 at 5:04 p.m.

Under the bill, doctors’ offices and clinics affiliated with hospitals would have to report allegations of patient abuse to the Illinois Department of Public Health, triggering an investigation by the...

A child's inhaler is shown in the nurse's office at the Barrington Early Learning Center in Barrington on Feb. 15, 2017. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Illinois legislature passes bill to limit cost of inhalers to $25 a month

May 24, 2024 at 3:37 p.m.

The bill’s passage follows years of outcry from patients with asthma and other lung conditions over the cost of inhalers, which can be hundreds of dollars a month.

Howard Brown Health to close 2 Chicago clinics amid financial pressure

May 20, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

The clinics will close in August and September.

People walk past Lurie Children’s Hospital in the Streeterville neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2024. Lurie experienced a cyberattack earlier this year that took more than a month to resolve. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Cyberattacks on Ascension, Lurie are the latest in a string of health care breaches

May 25, 2024 at 4:53 p.m.

Health care systems are particularly attractive targets for cybercriminals because of their size, their dependence on technology and the large amounts of sensitive data they hold.

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