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AMA Update for June 7, 2024: AMA Annual Meeting 2024: Advocacy progress on Medicare payment reform, prior authorization and more
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AMA Annual Meeting 2024: Advocacy progress on Medicare payment reform, prior authorization and more

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the AMA’s latest advocacy efforts.

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Federal Advocacy
AMA Update
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AMA outlines 5 keys to fixing America’s rural health crisis

Rural health inequities are getting worse, exacerbated by health system strains that are reducing access to care. Here’s how to turn things around.

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Population Health
Fighting for Physicians
Smiling senior woman talking with caregiver while playing cards in kitchen
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6 Min Read

Boost primary care at home with a “medicine cabinet autopsy”

Atlantic Health System’s innovative care-at-home efforts keep older adults out of the hospital. They start by doing inventory on all the Rx bottles.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
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For health AI to work, physicians and patients have to trust it

AI and AI-enabled tools are too important and revolutionary to leave questions about liability and governance unsettled.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
Senior couple in a telehealth appointment
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“Telehealth is for everyone” is guiding light at Henry Ford Health

Learn how the Detroit-based health system works to ensure older patients can virtually connect with their doctors to better manage chronic conditions.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
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4 Min Read

With the EHR, half of prior authorizations get instant approval

Hundreds of staff hours saved so far, says an Ochsner Health physician leader. More importantly, the EHR prior auth workflow is helping patients.

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Prior Authorization
Health System Spotlight
AMA Update for June 4, 2024: AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talks burnout, telehealth and augmented intelligence
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AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talks burnout, telehealth and augmented intelligence

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the latest in prior authorization, telehealth, physician well-being and more

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Leadership
AMA Update
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AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talks burnout, telehealth and augmented intelligence [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the latest in prior authorization, telehealth, physician well-being and more

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Leadership
AMA Update Podcast
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AI can support value-based care, but challenges must be addressed

Brett Oliver, MD, chief medical information officer for Baptist Health Medical Group, shares how to ensure augmented intelligence (AI) works for all.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight