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World Medical Association elects first woman chair

Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, immediate-past president of the AMA, became the first female chair of the World Medical Association (WMA). AMA Wire® talked with Dr. Hoven about her new role and what she hopes to accomplish.

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How we overcame the SGR hurdle

Robert M. Wah, MD, Immediate-Past President of the AMA discusses how America’s physicians worked to overcome the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.

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3 important events that can help us adopt new payment models

While physicians always are looking for better ways to care for our patients, actually doing so isn’t easy. Right now, three events are helping us on the journey to new care and payment models.

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5 ways health care will look different in the post-SGR era

Our nation stepped into a new era for health care last week when it adopted legislation to eliminate Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Here are five ways our health care system will begin to look different.

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AMA announces new chairs on medical coding and resource analysis

The AMA appointed new chairs for committees charged to ensure physician input into efforts to improve science, health and patient-physician relationships.

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Welcome to the future: How doctors are changing patient care

A new PBS documentary, Rx: The Quiet Revolution, found doctors, nurses and health care professionals changing the way we provide patient care.

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Doctors have unearthed the root of new payment model challenges

Most doctors want to make new payment and delivery methods work. But we need the appropriate resources to help redesign the health care system. When physicians have data in a meaningful context and tools to act on it, they respond positively, and patient care improves.

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See who's on the list of most influential physicians

Hospital CEOs, health IT experts and medical researchers made Modern Healthcare’s annual list of the 50 most influential physician executives in health care. More than one-half of this year’s honorees are AMA members.

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Physicians left with uncertainty until Senate back from recess

We were so close to achieving real reform with a bill that would permanently eliminate the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula—but the Senate was unable to clear some procedural hurdles in time and left for recess before taking action.

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