In his address at the American Medical Association Interim Meeting, AMA CEO James L. Madara, M.D., outlined the challenges and opportunities present in health data today and the revolutionary opportunity to improve patient care.
Read More
As part of its ongoing work to shape and support effective digital health innovation using physician expertise, the AMA announced an online platform designed to bring physicians and health tech companies together to develop and improve health care technology solutions.
MACRA promises to reshape how Medicare pays physicians under the QPP. Yet, a survey of 1,000 practicing physicians who have been involved in practice decision-making related to it shows that fewer than one in four physicians feel well prepared to meet its requirements in 2017.
The American Medical Association (AMA) believes mobile health applications (mHealth apps) and devices that promote safe and effective patient care have the potential to be integrated into everyday practice.
The AMA and the IHTSDO announced a new collaborative agreement to coordinate on the design and development of their respective coding and terminology products, CPT and SNOMED CT.
The AMA and the AHA have both issued statements on the steps taken by the ONC to strengthen the monitoring and testing of certified EHRs and supports ONC’s general framework laid out in its recently released final rule.
With physicians facing the most notable changes in Medicare in a generation, the American Medical Association unveiled several online tools to help physicians through pending Medicare payment and delivery changes.
Physicians are optimistic about digital health innovation and its game-changing potential to benefit medicine, according to a new survey released by the AMA. Physicians say there are “must-haves” that digital health tools need to turn their enthusiasm into adoption.
On April 8, 2016 the ONC issued a Request for Information – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; Medicare Access and CHIP…