Geriatrics Health App is Already Here
Longevity Studies have shown people who are married and/or have significant others live a healthier and longer life. Social media and Google plus Hangouts offer a special tool to empower social…
Medical Imaging March Madness – Stage 2 and the Health Affairs IT Study Debate
March was an intense month for medical imaging. The proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use Requirements were hot off the presses when a study in Health Affairs found that electronic access to imaging…
Drug Development Gets Even More Personal, Precise and Tailored
As we’ve discussed, Eric Topol’s “How to Change Medicine” provides valuable insights on how tailoring treatments in the clinic could boost health care effectiveness and lower costs. But we at Popper…
Justices Pounce upon ACA Mandate Defenders on Day 2
Will SCOTUS kill the mandate provision? The mainstream blogsophere (and media) are buzzing about the hard-hitting line of questioning lobbied at the U.S. today as to the consitutional merits of…
America’s Health Care Diagnosis [Infographic]
With the introduction of Obamacare, many Americans are trying to decide where they stand. This new infographic takes a look at some of the details surrounding the controversial change in…
ACA Individual Mandate Provision: Day 2 of Deliberations
Going into the second day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of the reform law, a new round of polling suggests that antipathy toward that buzzphrase…
What I Learned at the HIMSS Conference About Developments in Health IT for the Rest of 2012
Like many of you, I made the annual pilgrimage to the HIMSS Conference last month but I didn’t write much publicly about it (I mostly wrote private analyst reports for…
Excerpts from Monday’s Supreme Court Arguments
Arguments were presented about whether legal challenges to President Barack Obama's health care law are premature under the Anti-Injunction Act, which bars lawsuits against a tax until after the…
Antibiotics for a Virus? How to Just Say No
Studies, medical societies and position papers are unanimous in their condemnation of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for an uncomplicated URI … but not a single voice tells us HOW to…
Surgery Trumps Intensive Medical Therapy for Obese Diabetics
Two back to back articles in the March 26, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine show bariatric surgery to be more effective than intensive medical therapy when…
