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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How patients can start—and stick with—key lifestyle changes

Getting healthier is a common New Year’s resolution, and a great way to start is with a productive conversation in the physician’s office. Here’s how.

Prevention & Wellness
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Thinking outside the box to improve inpatient outcomes

Learn from Ochsner Health System’s Richard Milani, MD, about innovations that can make hospitals safer spaces for patients.

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HIPAA security rule & risk analysis

Download PDFs of the HIPAA toolkit, FAQs and other resources to understand the HIPAA rule requiring physicians to protect patients' electronic health information, ensuring its confidentiality and security.

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HIPAA violations & enforcement

Download the HIPAA toolkit—be advised on how the Department of Health and Human Services enforces HIPAA's privacy and security rules and how it handles violations.

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HIPAA privacy rule

Read about how HIPAA safeguards personal health information and allows patients to examine and correct their health records.

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HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

Download the HIPAA privacy and security toolkit PDF—for an overview of the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules—with which almost all physicians must comply.

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Payer-backed care shopping plans shouldn’t coerce patients

Employer or insurer-offered financial incentive programs can be useful, but must be transparent. AMA lays out other principles to guide such programs.

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Google-Ascension deal comes as concerns rise on use of health data

Patient privacy cannot be retrieved once it’s lost. Learn how the AMA has made protecting patient health data in the digital age a top priority.

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When you’re stumped by a diagnostic puzzler, here’s what to do

Lisa Sanders, MD, has written newspaper columns and books and stars in a new Netflix show about hard-to-diagnose cases. She offers her advice to doctors confronting stumpers.

Prevention & Wellness