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How can we leverage technology for better suicide prevention?

Technology is a critical tool that needs to be further developed to help save lives. Learn more from the AMA about how that could help.

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30 Min Read

Why innovation is needed to better manage chronic disease

Chronic diseases aren’t going anywhere. Richard Milani, MD, warns the problem will be getting worse and health care transformation’s required to meet the challenge.

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Moving Medicine Podcast
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Medicine’s administrative burdens create openings for innovation

Health care company executives say physician pain points are driving their attempts to create systems that work better for patients and doctors.

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Why health care innovation can’t happen without doctors’ insights

To advance the quadruple aim, technologists must heed this hard-won wisdom from users of the AMA Physician Innovation Network platform.

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Dec. 6, 2019: State Advocacy Update

AMA urges Walmart, OptumRx to delay EPCS requirements and Colorado focuses on evidence-based approaches to end opioid epidemic in the latest AMA state advocacy news.

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Can social media improve health? Twitter, Facebook execs weigh in

With most internet users searching health-related topics, it’s time to harness the trend in a way that improves patients’ health.

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Modernize public health surveillance to ease doctors’ reporting burden

New AMA policy calls for modernizing public health data systems to help alleviate the burden of reporting on physicians and improve the quality and timeliness of the data.

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Member Sherif Z. Zaafran at the 2019 HOD Meeting
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Physicians see big promise in use of real-world data, evidence

Increasing availability of real-world data and evidence can support, improve and accelerate the delivery of safe and cost-effective medical products.

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3 Min Read

Sensory simulators give doctors a better feel for performance improvement

Sensor technology used in simulations is showing physicians which techniques result in the most efficient procedures and best patient outcomes.

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