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To find fixes, Virginia health system asks, “What’s working?”

Focusing on the positive boosts resilience and collaboration. How an academic health system used the approach to improve care transitions.

Scope of Practice
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Clinicians often misestimate interventions’ harms, benefits

A systematic review finds clinicians regularly overestimate how much tests, treatments and screenings help and underestimate how much they can harm.

Prevention & Wellness
Steps Forward Advisory Council
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Need fixes for practice improvement challenges? Look to patients

An advisory group made up of patients and families can play a key role in a practice’s transition to value-based care. A new tool details how to create one.

AMA STEPS Forward®
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Preparing for upcoming Medicare changes? Tools to help your practice

The AMA Payment Model Evaluator tool helps physicians prepare for upcoming changes to Medicare by determining how MACRA will impact their practice. It also offers resources to help navigate the new regulations.

Medicare & Medicaid
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5 ways to recognize patient cues, understand needs

Empathetic listening can help physicians build stronger bonds with patients that aid health care. Though it seems simple, empathetic listening requires understanding how to recognize the cues that patients offer.

Prevention & Wellness
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A simple tool to ensure treatment plan effectiveness

Patients often ask physicians if a test, treatment or procedure is necessary? More than 70 professional medical societies created evidence-based lists to guide discussions.

AMA STEPS Forward®
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Lean strategies help a Boston practice improve patient care

Inefficiencies in running a medical practice can take time away from providing patient care. A key strategy for Lean management standardizes work. Clearly define steps and map tasks to larger processes.

Sustainability
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From hospital to home: A model for safer transitions

SafeMed, a new model using a primary care-based team makes transitions safer and decreased hospital admissions and emergency department visits for high-risk and high-needs patients. Based on winning entry in AMA-MGMA Practice Innovation Challenge.

Digital
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Tool helps patients discuss end-of-life decisions with physician

Without end-of life decisions on file, a patient’s care may not reflect what they actually want. Stanford created a template tool patients use to describe desired treatment interventions, preference for palliative sedation, and more.

AMA STEPS Forward®