The new policies adopted on the final day of voting at the AMA Interim Meeting include advocating for funding to support school-based mental health, removing barriers to improve access to opioid use disorder medications, improving health care for veterans, and protecting health care professionals from ionizing radiation.
The American Medical Association and 79 leading medical societies reaffirm their support for vaccination as the best way to protect against the flu, COVID-19, and RSV and their potentially serious complications.
HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has a global community of 125,000+ strong, and includes professionals from nurses to AI researchers. They bring insights from the world’s top health systems, including 430+ provider organizations, 500+ nonprofit partners and 550+ health services organizations. Here is some of their latest news.
Endorsing a stabilizing approach to Medicare reform, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that Congress link next year’s physician payment update to the growth in the cost of providing care.
Many physicians fear the health insurance industry’s use of unregulated artificial intelligence (AI) automation and predictive technologies will increasingly override good medical judgment and systematically deny patients coverage for necessary medical care.
Precision education leverages data systems and technology, including Augmented Intelligence (AI), to tailor learning experiences to individual needs, optimizing learner time and focusing on targeted areas of growth.
One of 48 public health partners nationwide, the AMA will receive funding for projects to increase screenings for infectious diseases, improve blood pressure control to prevent heart attacks and strokes, help physicians navigate brain health and dementia care, and improve care for people living with pain.
The AMA announced that it was awarded $4.15 million as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Partners Cooperative Agreement, a 5-year initiative aimed at strengthening the U.S. public health infrastructure and workforce.
Facing a fifth consecutive year of Medicare payment reductions, the American Medical Association issued a clarion call to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, urging the agency to be fully transparent about the impact of these payment cuts on physicians and patients.
With disruptions in clinical care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and viral hepatitis across the U.S., the AMA launched a new online toolkit to help physicians and other health care professionals increase routine screenings for HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis and latent tuberculosis.
Physician organizations are working to accelerate the integration of behavioral health services into primary care settings and close the unmet need for mental health services and substance use disorder treatment, but physicians cannot solve the crisis on their own.
Building on a shared commitment to eliminating health inequities, the AMA in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Joint Commission announced the creation of a learning network designed to help hospital systems apply an equity lens to all aspects of quality and safety practices—
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