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8 steps to position your health system for AI success

Accountability, oversight, clear policies and structure are essential to ensuring that your use of health care AI is an all-around winner.

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Fighting for Physicians

Your powerful ally

The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the courts and on the Hill to remove obstacles to patient care and confront today’s greatest health crises.

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Physicians reluctantly pack the EHR in their carry-on luggage

Primary care physicians typically spend 16 minutes of each vacation day on the EHR. Health systems are trying to reverse that trend.

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Fighting for Physicians
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Patients’ stories push lawmakers to act on prior authorization

Critical changes are need to fix the time-wasting, care-delaying payer process. Highlighting prior authorization’s patient impact goes a long way.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians
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Making content about AI in medicine more accessible

JAMA Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, explains how physicians can stay current on the latest trends in health care AI. 

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U.S. physician burnout hits lowest rate since COVID-19

Exclusive AMA data shows doctor burnout has fallen below 45%, but the job isn’t done. Health systems continue to work with the AMA to reduce burnout.

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Physician Health
Fighting for Physicians
Bruce A. Scott, MD, at the Politico Health Care Summit 2025
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Why fix Medicare now? There are 66 million reasons

That is how many patients rely on Medicare to access physician care. After fifth straight year of cuts, Congress must address systemic problems.

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Medicare & Medicaid
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E/M changes have led to more clinically meaningful documentation

Changes developed by the AMA and adopted by CMS to simplify E/M documentation have made these tasks more relevant, says physician survey.

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CPT®
Fighting for Physicians
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As they push ahead with AI, health leaders must set rules on use

Establishing AI governance can be daunting, even for big health systems with dedicated C-suite experts on the job. Find out how to move forward.

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Fighting for Physicians
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Fixing prior auth: First, speed up payers’ response times

Sluggish action on prior authorization requests can mean hospitalization or death. The AMA is fighting to speed up prior authorization.

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Prior Authorization
Fighting for Physicians