Over the three days I spent in Las Vegas for this year’s HLTH conference, I had dozens of conversations with providers, digital health investors, startup CEOs and other players in the healthcare industry. I…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have taken a bold step by mandating a standard for prior authorization. I talked to Nikki Henck, Senior Director of Utilization Management at Sagility, about the…
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The nation faces a projected shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034. There are three reasons for this massive dearth of physicians, American Medical Association President Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld said Tuesday during…
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By Anuja Vaidya
October 10, 2023 – Telehealth accounts for a significant share of mental health service utilization and spending among pediatric patients in the United States, with telemental health service utilization soaring 2,300 percent higher…
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The American Medical Association (AMA) has awarded research grants totaling nearly $600,000 to nine healthcare organizations, including Brigham and Women’s, MedStar, UCSF, and Yale School of Medicine, as part of its Electronic Health Record…
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The American Medical Association this week announced the nine new healthcare organizations who will split nearly $600,000 as part of its Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. WHY IT MATTERSThis batch of grant recipients…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 21, 2023 – The American Medical Association (AMA) has selected nine organizations as recipients of the 2023 EHR Use Research Grant Program.
The recipients will divide $589,000 to fund projects examining patterns of…
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted a policy urging health insurers to implement fair and thorough processes for AI-driven prior authorization. The AMA seeks increased oversight, clinical criteria-based reviews, involvement of healthcare professionals,…
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During the American Medical Association House of Delegates Annual Meeting, physicians agreed to develop principles on the benefits and consequences of AI-generated medical advice. They aim to protect patients from misinformation and ensure the…
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The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates considers a resolution that would urge doctors to educate patients about the risk of large language models. It also directs AMA to work with the federal government…
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