Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer Josh Lesko, MD, joins us to discuss the need for physicians to have a voice in the development of the technology they use. Dr. Lesko talks about the benefit ...

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 ...

For Lyndsay Harshman, MD, a satisfying career in medicine includes a strategic balance between research and clinical care. “To be successful, you can’t really have one without the other,” she said.

Tiny hands, little feet and smiles turned upside down—parents across the country are on alert as a familiar yet frustrating visitor makes its seasonal rounds: hand, foot and mouth disease. Often ...

Preventive services can be provided at no cost to patients Preventive services can be provided at no cost to patients Due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), when physicians order certain evidence-based ...

No more take backsies. That is the AMA’s message for payers who force patients and physicians to meet burdensome documentation requirements in order to prior authorize or precertify care and ...

Significant changes in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ®) code set for immunizations reflect the changing nature of how COVID-19 is being addressed as actions transition from a public health ...

The EHR inbox has become a primary means of communication in health care, but the tedious task of routing these messages disproportionally falls on physicians who too often become the primary triage ...

Before physician offices, hospitals and urgent-care centers took over as the dominant places for patients to seek the health care they needed, physicians brought their skills to patients’ homes, often ...

Most physicians wish they could spend less time writing clinical notes. But experts say that the time and energy needed to develop or learn to use new templates can discourage adoption of changes, ...

People who live in rural areas of the U.S. are at greater risk of dying from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke than their urban and suburban ...