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What is telehealth?

Telehealth, telemedicine and related terms generally refer to the exchange of medical information from one site to another through electronic communication.
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As end-of-life care grows more complex, start here to study up

Medical students, physicians and other health professionals will learn a lot from this great set of educational resources offered by the AMA and others.

Patient Support & Advocacy

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Patient data privacy and access resources

AMA seeks to ensure that patients have meaningful controls over and a clear understanding of how their health information data is being used.

Ethics

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Code of Medical Ethics: Patient-physician relationships

Doctor-patient relationships are strengthened by the practice of medical ethics, which can help you create better communication and health care decisions.

Ethics

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Physician Stewardship of Health Care Resources

Physicians should be prudent stewards of the shared societal resources with which they are entrusted.

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Quality

Individually and collectively, physicians should actively engage in efforts to improve the quality of health care.

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Professionalism in Health Care Systems

Health care systems can pose ethical challenges for physicians that could undermine the trust essential to patient-physician relationships.

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Ethically Sound Innovation in Medical Practice

Innovation shares features with both research and patient care, but is distinct from both.

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Code of Medical Ethics: Financing and delivery of health care

Financing health care can be a tricky issue. Find out how to ethically balance patients’ interests with the interests of payers and health care institutions.

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