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How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part II

By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The notion that hospitals can reduce readmissions, and that punishing them for “excess” readmissions will get them to do that, became conventional wisdom during the 2000s on the basis of very little evidence. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) urged Congress to enact the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) beginning in… Read More »

LogRhythm Releases True Unlimited Data Plan for SIEM

Industry’s first-ever fixed cost licensing model means businesses don’t have to sacrifice security because of cost unpredictability London, UK – 1st October, 2019 – LogRhythm, the company powering the world’s enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), announced today that it launched the first True Unlimited Data Plan for its NextGen SIEM. Historically, organisations have paid more… Read More »

A Classic Puerto Rican Condiment May Help Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

Looking for a tasty way to reduce your cancer risk? Eating sofrito, an oniony, garlicky condiment popular in Latin American cuisine but particularly so in Puerto Rican cooking, may help, suggests a new study published in Nutrition and Cancer. The study found that women who ate sofrito—a popular foundation for stews, beans and rice dishes… Read More »

Why Social Determinants of Health raise the question, ‘Now What?’

From Hippocrates to Doogie Howser, physicians both real and fictional have understood that improving the health of their patients requires an inquiry deeper than the sciences of physical medicine. Great physicians look beyond the physical variables to a person’s social context—the state of their housing, food, transportation, family life and other matters that contribute to… Read More »