Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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Alec Calac
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Q&A: How to support and retain Native American medical students

AMA member and MD-PhD student Alec Calac says medical schools can start by making sure their spaces and curricula are welcoming to Native people.

Med Student Advocacy
Communicating Social Determinants of Health webinar
Dec 8, 2022 ·
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Communicating Social Determinants of Health: A Role for Coding

Learn how social determinants of health (SDOH) information needs to be coded and interoperable across the health and human services ecosystem.

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Creating “techquity” to bridge patients to health innovations

Despite billions invested in health tech, inequities persist. Focusing on “techquity”—equitable design in the deployment of tech—can help.

Health Equity
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AMA offers new payment concept to reward high-value specialty care

To help inform a new government strategy, AMA offers an APM approach that primary care and specialist physicians can use to improve outcomes.

Payment & Delivery Models
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18 Min Read

Medical innovation in rural health care with Geisinger Health System & Sanford Health [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about medical innovation in rural health care.

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Population Health
AMA Update Podcast
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Medical innovation in rural health care with Geisinger Health System & Sanford Health

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about medical innovation in rural health care.

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Population Health
AMA Update
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AMA supports removing blood quantum from enrollment questions

The AMA will urge medical schools to remove discriminatory questioning regarding blood quantum according to new policy adopted today at the interim meeting.

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Jack Resneck Jr., MD, at the 2022 Interim Meeting
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Physicians must be empowered to put patients first: AMA president

Obstacles to care emerge from prior auth, Medicare cuts and politicized exam rooms. President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, details how AMA has doctors’ backs.

Interim Meeting
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James L. Madara, MD, address at the 2022 Interim Meeting of the HOD

In an address to the AMA House of Delegates at the 2022 AMA Interim Meeting, James L. Madara, MD, discusses how the AMA's strategic plans have endured. Access the recording and transcript of the speech.

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