American Medical Association
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American Medical Association and PatientPoint team up to address diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Health2047 spinout leverages community-based approach to tackle prediabetes
With $2 million in seed funding, the company, First Mile Care, is utilizing a coaching and support model in an effort to reverse prediabetes.
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Google, American Medical Association link up to create interoperability competition
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.
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AMA’s Physician Innovation Network lets providers connect with health tech startups
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.
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AMA launches initiative focused on organizing health data
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.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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AMA, AAMC and other medical societies partner with Human Diagnosis Project
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.
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Eight advocate groups to Senate: AHCA would harm patients
As the healthcare debate continues in Washington, a number of patient, provider and consumer advocate organizations — including AARP, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association — have banded together to encourage the Senate to consider the impact of the AHCA on patients.
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AMA tells Congress to slow down on Obamacare repeal
The letter, signed by AMA Executive Vice President and CEO Dr. James Madara, warned against throwing millions of people off the insurance rolls. Follow the money.
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Pushback begins against controversial HHS pick Tom Price
Price belongs to a far-right group called the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons that has expressed anti-vax viewpoints and is listed on a site called Quackwatch.
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Lots of groups still have issues with MACRA, health IT certification rules
Responses were mixed, which probably isn’t that big of a deal, given that Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt said Friday that MACRA was a “living, breathing rule” intended to change over time.
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CMS moves to reduce MACRA reporting burden on physicians
CMS introduced what the agency called a “long-term effort,” led by in-house physicians, to get medical practitioners involved in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APM) programs that MACRA created.