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Is order entry a physician-only EHR task?

Get real answers from the AMA to common myths about who can enter orders in the EHR.

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Medicare & Medicaid
Debunking Regulatory Myths

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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.

Digital
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Meaningful Use: Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programs

Get more information and download resources on the incentives Medicare and Medicaid provide for medical practices to adopt new records, billing and practice management procedures.

Medicare & Medicaid
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May 3, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Overhaul of the Meaningful Use program, cuts to in-office clinical testing services and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Aug. 24, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Hardship exception, EHR incentive programs and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Missing from MACRA: 2 Meaningful Use milestones

The final rule implementing MACRA contains a welcome but little-noticed provision that relieves physicians of EHR-reporting burdens.

Medicare & Medicaid
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$1 billion opioids package passed with “Cures” bill

The money will help states improve drug-monitoring programs, support access to opioid treatment programs and more.

Behavioral Health
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In EHR age, physicians long to restore medicine’s personal touch

Research reveals what gives physicians professional satisfaction and what drives their their discontent.

Physician Health
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Meaningful Use gets a meaningful change: 90-day reporting

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed change to make Meaningful Use more flexible for physicians by allowing them to report only for a 90-day period in 2016.

Medicare & Medicaid