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EHR optimization: Strategies for thriving
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EHR implementation: Ease the transition
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EHR software selection & purchase
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EHR in-basket restructuring
Clear Search
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2 MIN READ

Aug. 5, 2022: Advocacy Update other news

AMA leadership video brings personal story to call for prior authorization reform and more in the latest Advocacy Update other news.

Advocacy Update
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24 MIN READ

How managing COVID-19 "crystalized" operations for data & telehealth at UCSD

In this episode of Making the Rounds, Brian Clay, MD, shares his experience with clinical informatics including interoperability, open notes for patients, data literacy and more.

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Digital
Making the Rounds Podcast
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27 MIN READ

How do we measure quality of care? A conversation on EHRs and research

In this episode of Making the Rounds, A.J. Holmgren, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of medicine at UC San Francisco, discusses EHR quality measurement, quality of care and patient outcomes.

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Digital
Making the Rounds Podcast
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4 MIN READ

Long a headache, health IT shows capacity to empower amid COVID-19

Learn with the AMA how the pandemic has given rise to a new understanding of how health IT can further medical research and patient care.

Digital
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13 MIN READ

Karen Smith, MD, on the value of physicians and payor contracting

AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion with Karen Smith, MD, on what physicians need to know about payor contracting.

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Private Practices
Moving Medicine Video Update
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4 MIN READ

AMA sets out to strengthen U.S. public health systems

Underfunded and misunderstood, the country’s public health infrastructure needs help to better handle the next pandemic. Learn more about the AMA’s plans.

Public Health
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11 MIN READ

Oct. 22, 2021: National Advocacy Update

AMA supports passage of the TRIUMPH Act to combat maternal mortality and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

Advocacy Update
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4 MIN READ

What needs to happen for self-measured blood pressure to take root

Many in the United States—both patients and physicians—have come around to the benefits of SMBP, but the infrastructure to optimize its value is lagging.

Hypertension
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5 MIN READ

How the crucible of COVID-19 can help fix the health care system

A National Academy of Medicine report details the pandemic’s effect on clinicians and the long-overdue systemic improvements needed to support them.

Public Health