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Are hospitals required to deliver ADT notifications directly to a physician’s EHR inbox?

Get real answers from the AMA to common myths about sending admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) notifications to physicians’ EHR inboxes.

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Administrative Burdens
Debunking Regulatory Myths
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Are licensing/credentialing bodies required to probe into past mental health or substance use?

Get real answers from the AMA to common myths about licensing and credentialing bodies’ inquiry of physician mental health. 

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Debunking Regulatory Myths
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Are physicians required to redocument nonphysician entries in the patient record?

Get real answers from the AMA to common myths about entries in the patient record. 

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Administrative Burdens
Debunking Regulatory Myths
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Time for a different approach in the exam room: deprescribing

One-third of older adults take five or more prescriptions, contributing to falls and other adverse events. Good medicine means taking another look.

Behavioral Health
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What doctors want patients to know about social isolation

Social isolation is a growing epidemic that can dangerously affect mental and physical health. Five physicians share how to combat social isolation. 

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Behavioral Health
What Doctors Want Patients to Know™
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Behind Oregon’s first-in-nation law curbing corporate medicine

Amid rise of health care-delivery consolidation, new state law reshapes how business entities are permitted to engage in the practice of medicine.

Private Practices
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HOD election rules

Find out about the election bylaws and policies for being elected to the AMA House of Delegates.

AMA Elections
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Investigating pharmacists’ refusal to fill valid physician orders

Some pharmacists are substituting their judgment for that of ordering physicians. The AMA opposes such actions.

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Scope of Practice
Fighting for Physicians
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AMA backs effort to lift restrictions on physician-owned hospitals

The AMA and other organizations support House efforts to get rid of rules that block new or expanded physician-owned hospitals. 

Federal Advocacy