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Reining in Readmissions in NJ |
 Medicare will soon begin penalizing hospitals for readmitting patients within 30 days of their discharge, and New Jersey hospitals are bracing for what could be thousands of dollars in lost revenue. As they have worked over the past few years to get a grip on this issue, hospitals have come to realize that it takes an entire community to reduce readmissions. http://bit.ly/JUX3J1 |
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Vegan chef offers advice, shares recipes to fight signs of aging |
 Wrinkles are directly linked to eating sugar, said the Japanese vegan chef. Chef Ayumi Hashimoto, of Nashville, Tenn., informed workshop guests that sugar in the bloodstream attaches to proteins to form harmful molecules called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs. Hashimoto said the more sugar you eat, the more AGEs you develop, and the more wrinkles you acquire. The bitter news for those with a sweet tooth was one of many facts Hashimoto shared at an anti-aging workshop and vegan cooking class Sunday. http://bit.ly/FQDz6d |
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Wired MD: NJ Plugs Into Funding to Digitize Patient Records |
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New Jersey announced a milestone Thursday in the long journey to convert the state’s hospitals and physicians to electronic medical records: Nearly $40 million in federal incentive funds is flowing this week from Medicaid to the first 70 healthcare providers in New Jersey to go digital. Over the next decade, state officials estimated that 3,000 providers would receive up to $500 million in Medicaid incentive payments to help defray the cost of installing the computers and software that will maintain patient records -- prescription medications, lab tests, exams, surgery -- in digital files that ultimately will be accessible via the Internet, anywhere in the world. http://bit.ly/zcUb0W |
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Norovirus sickens 40 Rider University students |
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Two neighboring New Jersey universities are scrubbing bathrooms and other facilities after suspected outbreaks of Norovirus sickened more than 140 students in the last two weeks. Despite flare-ups at Princeton and Rider universities, the intermittent appearance of the highly contagious bug — often called "stomach flu" — is usual for this time
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Catholics favor healthcare contraception |
 Fifty-eight percent of U.S. Roman Catholics say employers should be required to provide employees with healthcare including contraception. Among other religious Americans, 61 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans said employers should be required to cover
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