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Simpler logins, voice recognition ease click fatigue at Yale

New initiatives at Yale help clinicians spend less time typing and more time caring for patients. Yale CMO and AMA member Ronald Vender, MD, details the course to beating burnout.

Digital
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Cut prior authorization hassles through automation, EHR integration

Electronic prior authorization technology integrated with practices’ e-prescribing workflow can speed the process. The AMA also advocates other PA reforms.

Prior Authorization
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Alarming survey results spark 7 system changes to buck burnout

With 59 percent of its doctors experiencing burnout, leaders at this major health system needed a new direction driven by physician feedback.

Physician Health
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Why medicine’s digital transformation is just beginning

Physicians often struggle with the clerical burdens of the EHR, but thought leader Robert Wachter, MD, believes better things are on the way.

Digital
Prior Authorization Graphic Maze
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Physicians, payers collaborate on prior-authorization relief

Doctors, pharmacists, other providers and payers commit to work together to ease prior authorization’s treatment delays, administration burdens.

Prior Authorization
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Jan. 11, 2018: National Advocacy Update

CMS validation criteria, MIPS data, QPP final rule, proposed rule on Association Health Plans and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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EHR scribes cut physician documentation time in half, study says

New research and an easy-to-access training program point the way to getting the most out of an EHR with the least disruption to care.

Digital
Prescriptions sometimes exist both digitally and traditionally, causing errors.
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Want to cancel e-prescription? Not always easy; that needs change

E-prescription cancellation should be standardized across EHRs, delegates say. They also push back on EHR-related pay penalties.

Digital
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AMA president recaps 2017 agenda that put patients, physicians first

In his address at the AMA Interim Meeting, AMA President David O. Barbe, M.D., recapped an aggressive year of advocacy and accomplishment.

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