HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis and LTBI Routine Screening Toolkit

The AMA’s toolkit for community health centers and emergency departments guides you from patient intake to linkage to care.

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Routine Screening Toolkit
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How tomorrow’s doctors can unleash population health’s power

The AMA offers new training to help medical students, residents and doctors learn about the potential change-maker of population health.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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How the EHR can help you ID, manage patients with prediabetes

Optimizing the electronic health record can help physicians and care teams identify and manage patients with prediabetes, Find out how.

Prevention & Wellness
Toyin Ajayi, MD
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This N.Y. “startup” clinic tackles health's social determinants

Physician says custom tech and integrated care can address the nonmedical factors that account for a significant proportion of patient outcomes.

Population Health
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Future physicians should seek training to enhance access to rural care

The AMA encourages medical students and residents to seek training opportunities in public and population health to increase access to care in rural areas.

Press Releases
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Moving the U.S. health care system to a value-based approach

David Nash, MD, founding dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia, looks at why health care needs to shift to a value-based approach.

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Payment & Delivery Models
Leadership Thoughts
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Targeting populations to overcome barriers in diabetes prevention

This ACO’s integrated, community-based approach to helping their patients with diabetes and prediabetes has reaped rewards and can serve as a model.

Prevention & Wellness
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Practice lands tool to measure, manage gaps in care

Population reports help this practice identify gaps in care and put action items in physicians’ hands in the exam room.

Population Health
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Improve health equity by collecting patient demographic data

Most physician practices do not collect patient demographic information, or they do so in unreliable ways. The data can help drive approaches to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.

Population Health
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Few physicians are fluent in data. New program aims to fix that.

A fellowship program at the Regenstrief Institute aims to develop physicians and other health professionals who can translate big data into better care.

Medical Fellowships