Two years ago, Donna Patton became one of the nearly 800,000 Americans who suffer a stroke each year. She still remembers waking up from surgery and hearing the reaction from her medical team.
President Donald Trump has stood strongly behind the anti-abortion movement, and his Supreme Court picks have some questioning the future of abortion access. However, technology could be key to access, too -- for both sides of the abortion debate.
Illinois' telehealth task force wants the state to loosen Medicaid restrictions to help bring specialty care to patients in rural and underserved communities.
When President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in late October, it triggered a regulatory change intended to make it easier for people to get care in places with provider shortages. This declaration allows for the prescribing of addiction medicine virtually, without doctors ever seeing the patient in person.
On The 21st: How are virtual platforms helping patients across Illinois connect with the doctors they need? Plus, it's the last full scheduled week of session for lawmakers in Springfield. What can we expect to see happen?
