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Validating digital health innovations

"Does it work?" Connecting physicians to the health care tech community for the development of improved digital health solutions.

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Help Move Medicine

Medicine doesn’t stand still, and neither do we. AMA members don’t just keep up with medicine—they shape its future.

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Health information exchange interoperability

Learn how health information exchanges allow health care providers to securely share patient data electronically to support patient care across the country.

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Quality data is key to addressing social determinants of health

Social determinants of health (SDOH) drive 80% of patient outcomes. Learn how the AMA is working to make sure SDOH data is clinically meaningful.

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Medicine’s language—CPT—opens for developers to test innovations

Digital health startups got nearly $30 billion last year, but too often turn out products that burden doctors. AMA effort aims to help change that.

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James L. Madara, MD, address at the November 2020 Special Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the November 2020 AMA Special Meeting, Dr. Madara described how the AMA strives to continue steady progress each day. Learn more.

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AMA and SNOMED International launch demonstration project

Joint initiative will provide opportunities for health care stakeholders to explore how two coding terminologies can be used in tandem.

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Melding physician-technology power to achieve better health care

AMA CEO James L. Madara, MD, explores innovative work underway to use technology’s power to help physicians improve care, ease workload.

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3 digital health trends that are transforming patient care

Michael Hodgkins, MD, AMA chief medical information officer, details how digital health will cause the medical profession to shift and evolve.

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21st century medicine must tackle health inequity: AMA CEO

James L. Madara, MD, tells the AMA House of Delegates that efforts to reshape medicine won’t succeed unless they put equity front and center.

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