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Free up to 3 hours of doctors’ time daily with smart use of MAs

Medical assistants (MAs) can tackle administrative tasks, routine clinical services and help practices excel in team-based care. Learn more with the AMA.

Sustainability
Feb 17, 2021 ·
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Marie Brown, MD, discusses medical assistant recruitment & retention

This AMA webinar focuses on how to increase the number of medical assistants that are trained with innovative programs and retain the best.

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AMA STEPS Forward® Innovation Academy Webinar Series
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With 2 new patients a day, medical scribes are profitable in one year

For all medical specialties using scribes, study finds greater productivity that allowed physicians to see more patients and offset the scribe program’s costs.

Sustainability
Health care worker measuring patient's blood pressure
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4 steps for medical assistants to help improve BP control

The largest health system in Illinois found that their blood pressure control was at only 55.6%. Here is how medical assistants at Amita Health helped boost BP control.

Prevention & Wellness
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Secret to BP control success in practice: Medical assistants

This health center improved its hypertension-control rate by 28 percent. Find out more about the key role that MAs played in their success.

Prevention & Wellness
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EHR scribes cut physician documentation time in half, study says

New research and an easy-to-access training program point the way to getting the most out of an EHR with the least disruption to care.

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Team-based health care: A win for patients, staff and physicians

Avoiding physician burnout is one of the reasons medicine is turning to team-based health care. Empowering medical assistants and other staff helps put patient back at center of care.

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Medical assistants, front line of patient care: One practice's winning strategy

Well-trained medical assistants can free physicians from routine administrative and clinical tasks. Implementing a professional development program can increase ability to contribute to the practice.

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Medical assistants take central role in team-based health care: One Stanford practice

Team-based health care reduces administrative responsibilities for physicians. At one Stanford practice, medical assistants work with patients to resolve health issues based on protocol or knowledge of individual cases.

Sustainability