The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association are asking Congress for $100 billion in funding to offset hospital costs related to Covid-19, saying it could make a difference in health systems’ response to the pandemic.
The House Education and Labor Committee advanced a bill to protect patients from surprise medical bills. A separate, rival bill from the House Ways and Means Committee is backed by hospitals and provider groups.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The health plan hopes to better address the needs of underserved populations through community-based teams that can understand and overcome social barriers to care.
Called the AMA Ed Hub, it includes educational information on topics like hypertension, oncology, professional well-being, patient care, ethics, health disparities and lifestyle behaviors.
The duo is supporting the creation of nearly two dozen new ICD-10 codes related to social determinants of health.
PatientPoint will give patients and physicians AMA-developed educational material to help them identify the risks for the diseases and encourage them to take action.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In a letter addressed to the CEOs of Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon, Google, Youtube and Twitter, AMA executive vice president CEO James Madara wrote about the medical community's concern about the spread of misinformation on vaccines.
With $2 million in seed funding, the company, First Mile Care, is utilizing a coaching and support model in an effort to reverse prediabetes.
The organization believes the deal would cause an increase in premiums, a reduction in competition in health insurance markets and a rise in drug spending and out-of-pocket costs for consumers.
The competition seeks solutions that show how patient health data can be captured by mobile devices, sent to a physician and turned into actionable information used to improve health outcomes.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
New research from Accenture and the American Medical Association found that more than four in five doctors have had some type of cyberattack in their practices. More than half of surveyed respondents indicated they're very or extremely concerned about future cyberattacks.
Physicians and healthcare entrepreneurs have a new way to meet and engage in meaningful dialogue: the Physician Innovation Network, a new online platform out of the American Medical Association.
The American Medical Association has founded the Integrated Health Model Initiative, a collaborative that brings the healthcare and technology sectors together around a shared data model. Organizations such as Cerner and IBM have already signed on as participants.
A new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine found family physicians spent 5.9 hours out of their 11.4-hour workday in the EHR, completing tasks ranging from documentation to inbox management.
A worldwide effort, it is creating an online system that leverages joint knowledge and machine learning to map the best steps for a given patient.