AMA president outlines physician leadership plan for digital health

The game-changing digital transformation of medicine is emerging into a new phase, according to Robert M. Wah, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and there is reason for great optimism in the future of this evolution as the AMA helps physicians take on a greater role in leading changes that will move technological innovations forward.

In his keynote address to the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference Innovation Symposium in Chicago, Dr. Wah discussed the AMA's ongoing work as we are heading into what he described as phase three of the digitization of medicine. Phase one involved the shift from paper to digital platforms, while phase two involved networking information and interoperability. Phase three of this evolution involves the analysis of data.