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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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March 23, 2017: National Advocacy Update

Health reform, House considers medical liability reform bill and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
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Barriers to colonoscopy screenings tackled in physician-led APM

Advanced APMs developed by physicians for use in the QPP look to coordinate care and ease barriers to services for patients.

Scope of Practice
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What airplane deicing has to do with teamwork in health care

The teamwork approach exemplified by “high-reliability” industries, such as aviation, is now being integrated into medical education.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
AMA President Andrew W. Gurman, MD
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As physicians, we must speak up for our patients

Speaking to physicians in Washington, D.C., AMA President Andrew W. Gurman expressed the role of physicians in the thick of the national health reform debate.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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Help develop an alternative payment model for your specialty

The Quality Payment Program allows physicians to not only participate in alternative payment models, but to engage in their development.

Payment & Delivery Models
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Make the most out of meetings to improve practice teamwork

A group of internal medicine practices in Boston explains how it has used team meetings to solve workflow problems and build camaraderie.

Scope of Practice
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Jan. 26, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn more about the scope of practice case which medical professionals are qualified to testify, setting limits on medical liability testimony.

Advocacy Update
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Scope of practice should set limits on medical liability testimony

Can an advanced registered nurse practitioner provide medical causation testimony? The Supreme Court of Washington will decide.

Judicial Advocacy