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Mashup Score: 18AMA president gets colonoscopy at Milwaukee VA: 'I believe in the VA system' | VA Milwaukee health care | Veterans Affairs - 1 month(s) ago
As president of the American Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is the face and voice of the nation’s largest association of doctors and medical students.
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Mashup Score: 17AMA applauds administration’s actions to increase access to coverage - 1 month(s) ago
The actions strengthen patient protections and close coverage gaps, helping millions of Americans gain or keep coverage and access care.
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Mashup Score: 9Match Day marks the start of a new journey for tomorrow’s doctors - 2 month(s) ago
The move to physician residency comes with new power to transform your patients’ lives, and medicine, for the better. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and dig in.
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Mashup Score: 3
HIMSS is excited to recognize those helping transform the global health ecosystem as the 2024 HIMSS Changemaker in Health Award and Scholarship recipients.
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Mashup Score: 11Routine Screening - 2 month(s) ago
Join Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, President of the American Medical Association (AMA), and Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, Director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) and a retired two-star Rear Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service, as they discuss a new toolkit from the AMA to help community health centers and emergency departments routinely screen for these infectious diseases. Routine screening for and early detection of HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis and latent TB infection are critical for the health of our communities as these infections can have an asymptomatic stage which may prevent individuals from seeking the testing needed. Routinely screening for these infectious diseases can effectively identify these infections creating opportunities for treatment and prevention. The AMA’s HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis and LTBI Routine Screening Toolkit is specifically designed to help clinicians in community health centers and emergency departme
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Mashup Score: 0Homepage - AMA End the Epidemic - 2 month(s) ago
“This report highlights that the physician community is working on multiple fronts to remove barriers to evidence-based care for patients with substance use disorders and pain. Progress in reducing deaths, however, has been incredibly difficult due to a combination of factors, including the increasingly dangerous illicit drug supply contaminated with fentanyl and other toxic substances; the continued stigma faced by individuals with a substance use disorder; and the fact that health insurers, year after
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Mashup Score: 13The only cure for Medicare payment mess is wholesale reform - 2 month(s) ago
Congress again has failed to stop Medicare physician pay cuts. Comprehensive, long-term changes that protect patients’ access to care are long overdue.
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Mashup Score: 1AMA: Patients, physicians continue to endure Medicare cuts - 2 month(s) ago
The AMA expressed disappointment today that the spending bill includes Medicare cuts.
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Mashup Score: 3AI, Health Care, and the Strange Future of Medicine - 2 month(s) ago
SXSW 2024 Schedule | The AI revolution in health care will change the practice of medicine forever. Or will it? How we move from high potential to high impact is an essential – and often overlooked – part of the AI conversation in health care. Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, president of the American Medical Association and one of the nation’s leading experts on AI applications in health care, talks about the high stakes of AI development, mitigating risks for patients and doctors, and what really matters in this new era of…
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Mashup Score: 5As cyberattack jeopardizes physician practices, AMA demands action - 2 month(s) ago
Unprecedented disruptions in wake of Change Healthcare cyber-takedown demand immediate attention.
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