Topic in Focus: Telehealth Adoption

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New AMA effort reenvisions a value framework for virtual care

Return on Health helps define and measure the benefits generated by digitally enabled care.

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Patients, doctors like telehealth. Here’s what should come next.

Massive survey shows how patients and physicians feel about telehealth. Learn what’s needed to protect and improve this mode of care.

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Pandemic’s telehealth advances will be lost if Congress doesn’t act

Geographic, site restrictions on patient access to telemedicine should be eliminated for good, AMA says in House Ways and Means testimony.

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Treating behavioral health to boost patients’ overall outcomes

Learn how physicians are integrating behavioral health care into their primary care practices to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions.

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Physicians can make most of telehealth—even after COVID’s gone

Learn with the AMA about an initiative that helps physician practices adopt telehealth and continuously adapt to its demands.

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Cross-state licensing process now live in 30 states

Learn how growth in physicians’ use of interstate medical licensure has corresponded with skyrocketing use of telehealth during the pandemic.

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What it’s like to specialize in dermatology: Shadowing Dr. Kimball

As a dermatologist, AMA member Alexa B. Kimball, MD, enjoys being able to rapidly make a diagnosis and implement a plan that makes a patient feel better quickly.

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Freeing up hospital beds with a COVID-19 surveillance program

Ochsner Health’s COVID-19 surveillance program helps physician rest more easily in the knowledge their patients are safely monitored at home.

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Shantanu Nundy, MD, MBA, on post pandemic patient focused framework

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing the post-pandemic framework for patient care.

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