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Digital

Mobile health gets road map for high-quality apps

New mHealth guidelines covering privacy, content, security and operability can provide assurance that apps deliver value to patients and physicians.

Sustainability

Cybersecurity: Ransomware attacks shut down clinics, hospitals

Cybersecurity is not just a technical issue; it’s a patient safety issue. Learn more from the AMA about how to protect your practice and your patients.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

How to improve screening for social determinants of health

Most doctors and hospitals aren’t yet screening patients on issues such as housing or transportation needs. Learn more from the AMA on how to change that.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Netflix series crowdsources clinical stumpers for diagnosis

The show’s star, Lisa Sanders, MD, offers her thoughts on how the show underscores the importance of physicians’ listening and communication skills.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

This is how generic drugs get their names

There’s a formula behind those funny names. Foremost, it’s meant to eliminate confusion and improve patient safety.

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Patient Support & Advocacy

Governor’s move promotes anesthesia patient safety

Allowing nurse anesthetists to practice without physician supervision is not in patients’ best interests or consistent with state law, Mississippi’s governor says.

Patient Support & Advocacy

CVS-Aetna merger

The AMA aims to protect patients and physicians by actively opposing anticompetitive health insurer mergers.

10 states with largest decrease in competition levels

Patient Support & Advocacy

10 states where health insurance competition has fallen the most

These states are part of a trend that increasingly puts patients and physicians at a disadvantage with large health plans.

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