What's being CEO of the American Medical Association like? What are doctor CEOs doing? How has medicine and the American Medical Association changed? After leading the AMA for 14 years, CEO and ...

University of Iowa Health Care’s patient-centered facility offers a full range of services for musculoskeletal care, including surgery and rehab. To build an orthopedic freestanding hospital, ...

When The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) rolled out ambient augmented intelligence (AI) —also known as artificial intelligence—scribes in late 2023, it was with an eye toward solving one of medicine’s ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

Reducing administrative burdens that add hours onto the workday are the biggest hope that physicians have for how augmented intelligence (AI)—often referred to as artificial intelligence—can change ...

Health insurers’ use of AI is bringing a new level of concern to the burdensome payer cost-control practice known as prior authorization. In a recently released AMA survey (PDF), 61% of physicians ...

Garcia: The CDC's latest MMWR, which did publish last Thursday, detailed three cases of U.S. veterinarians who work with cattle who unknowingly had H5 avian flu. Two of them reported no exposures to ...

We know that we need to support both large institutions and smaller practices. And so a lot of focus will also be on health equity, making sure that there is equitable access to these tools and also ...

Updates were made to CPT’s general surgery section to reflect novel approaches in skin grafts for wound care and recovery (15011-15018) and advancements in surgical techniques for the elimination of ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

Payers erect roadblocks allegedly designed to save money for the health system and protect their resources, but when patients and their doctors face care delays—or when they give up and abandon ...

The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. In this installment, Nancy Salloum ...