In his address to the House of Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) Annual Meeting, AMA CEO James L Madara, M.D. outlined the challenges and opportunities facing medicine in today’s rapidly-changing digital economy.
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Building on its historic commitment to advance the practice of medicine and improve public health, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced that it is investing $15M to become founding partner of a health care innovation company – Health2047, Inc. – that will conduct rapid exploration of innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing the nation’s 1.1 million physicians and the patients they serve.
The American Medical Association (AMA), the premier national physician organization, gathered physician and medical student leaders representing all aspects of medicine during its Interim Meeting and voted to adopt new policies on emerging health care topics.
Centura Health has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology.
The AMA and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have developed a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework that shows a lack of focus among regulators and industry on user-centered design and usability testing.
The AMA took a significant step toward its goal of accelerating digital medicine into clinic practice with the foundational meeting of an AMA-sponsored workgroup charged with facilitating the integration of the latest technological advances in telehealth services into the Current Procedural Terminology code set.
Three weeks after Aetna announced it would acquire Humana for $37 billion comes news that Anthem will acquire Cigna for $54 billion. The merger will create our nation’s largest health insurance company.
Last week we hosted a webinar on preparing for making the ICD-10 transition. Presented by Jim Daley, Health IT Director of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and co-chair the WEDI ICD-10 workgroup, the webinar attracted nearly 800 registrants.