University of Iowa Health Care’s patient-centered facility offers a full range of services for musculoskeletal care, including surgery and rehab. To build an orthopedic freestanding hospital, ...

What's being CEO of the American Medical Association like? What are doctor CEOs doing? How has medicine and the American Medical Association changed? After leading the AMA for 14 years, CEO and ...

A lifelong resident of Flint, Michigan, Dr. Mukkamala has spent decades treating patients in a city that has weathered economic collapse and public health disasters. Flint, he said, is emblematic of ...

Physician leaders and compliance leaders share many of the same goals. To name a few: safe, high-quality patient care; maintaining accreditation; minimizing risks; safeguarding patient privacy; and ...

The physician shortage affects everyone. That’s just one reason the AMA continues to support bipartisan legislative solutions put forth at the federal level such as the Conrad State 30 and Physician ...

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes offer doctors and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures to streamline reporting, increase accuracy and ...

When The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) rolled out ambient augmented intelligence (AI) —also known as artificial intelligence—scribes in late 2023, it was with an eye toward solving one of medicine’s ...

In his final address to the House of Medicine, outgoing AMA president Bruce A. Scott, MD, who has taken the message of practicing physicians to America this year, called upon physicians to step up and ...

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 ...

The beginnings of a comprehensive AI policy at the federal level started to form as the Biden administration drew to a close. The January 2024 release of a final rule from the Assistant Secretary for ...

Myocarditis is “an inflammatory disease of the myocardium that can be caused by a wide array of conditions,” said Dr. Weber. The myocardium is the middle and thickest layer of the heart wall, composed ...

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 ...