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Nov. 3, 2017: National Advocacy Update

IPAB repeal legislation; opioids emergency declaration, biosimilars educational materials and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Helping patients, physicians form true digital connections

Physician thought leaders will detail initiatives that aim to make health care data more informative, more interoperable, more adaptive and easier to capture.

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EHRs in the era of MACRA

Under QPP, the Advancing Care Information component replaces Meaningful Use. Partnerships needed to improve EHRs that often fail on flexibility.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Hot-button topic: How can we make EHRs better, more usable?

Physicians gather to discuss EHR usability and optimization, share best practices and learn from other doctors to ease burdens.

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AMA President David O. Barbe, MD, MHA
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Dr. Barbe: We need more time with patients, less at the keyboard

One way government can improve health care is to let physicians spend more time on face-to-face care and less time on administrative tasks.

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Doctor works day and night on electronic health records.
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Family doctors spend 86 minutes of “pajama time” with EHRs nightly

A big chunk of the administrative work physicians do on EHRs could be properly delegated to other members of the practice team.

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Aug. 24, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Hardship exception, EHR incentive programs and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Electronic documentation impedes emergency department efficiency

A change intended to improve care leads to increased lengths of stay for patients visiting the emergency department. 

Digital
Distraught physician works with computer.
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EHRs exert different kind of drain for hospital-based physicians

Hospital-based physicians are impacted by a lack of time while office-based doctors experience a lack in quality time with patients, according to a new study.

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