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Patient Access Playbook: Legal requirements

Download the playbook PDF to learn how federal medical privacy law, commonly known as HIPAA, provides a patient the right to obtain an electronic copy of their medical record in the patient’s preferred form and format.

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Patient Access Playbook: Putting it into practice

Download the Patient Access Playbook PDF to learn more about the first step to operationalizing patient electronic access—understanding the capabilities of your EHR technology.

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Patient Access Playbook: Special topics

Download the playbook and topic brief PDFs to read real-world scenarios about barriers associated with accessing images, records of the deceased and records from practices that are closed.

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Patient Access Playbook: The world of apps

Download the Patient Access Playbook PDF to learn about rights and responsibilities when patients use apps for their EHRs.

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Patient Access Playbook: FAQs

Download a PDF of the Patient Access Playbook to read frequently asked questions and their answers.

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In patient care, what is the ethical role of risk managers?

Learn how risk managers can collaborate with ethics consultants, physicians and other health professionals to properly respond to complex questions around caregiving, ethics and law.

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Dr. Madara: Pandemic demands nimble response and AMA is delivering

AMA CEO James L. Madara, MD, says focus on removing obstacles to care, driving medicine’s future, and confronting public health crises is being validated.
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Nov. 13, 2020: National Advocacy Update

Ongoing AMA advocacy efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic and more in the latest Federal Advocacy Update.

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Protecting physicians and hospitals from emerging cyberthreats

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing emerging cyber threats during the pandemic.

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