People who used the health systems’ websites, LiveWell app or MyChart patient portal between Oct. 24, 2017, and Oct. 22, 2022, may be able to claim up to $50 each, according to the settlement website. The deadline to apply is Jan. 18. The health systems agreed to the settlement in August as part of a class-action lawsuit claiming those digital tools were embedded with “pixels,” or consumer-behavior trackers, that sent their personal and medical information to third-party tech companies.
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care and Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care have since joined the larger Advocate Health system, based in Charlotte, N.C. Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health didn’t respond to a request for comment. Advocate Aurora Health reported in October 2022 that as many as 3 million patients may have been affected by the “pixel” data breach.
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