Stethoscope next to a physician working on a computer
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E-prescribing controlled substances: Here’s why the clicks add up

70% of physicians e-prescribe, but only 20% can e-prescribe controlled substances. The AMA is asking EHR vendors for action to help change that.

Digital
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June 27, 2019: Advocacy spotlight on Funding boost needed to close treatment gap for patients with opioid use disorder

The nation's opioid epidemic is worsening. Find out how AMA recommendations on the policy and clinical interventions that work.

Advocacy Update
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June 14, 2019: National Advocacy Update

Refining MACRA, proposed health information exchange rules and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
Delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting
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Get rid of market barriers to appropriate pain management

Health insurers, pharmacy benefit management companies and others are making it harder for physicians to provide appropriate care to patients living with pain.

Overdose Epidemic
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AMA passes opioid policies to end barriers to non-opioid treatment

The AMA approved several opioid-related policies intended to put the focus of pain treatment back on patients and away from arbitrary third-party controls.

Press Releases
Photo of AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, giving her inauguration speech at the 2019 HOD Annual Meeting,
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New AMA president: Time for physicians to create history together

In ascending to one of medicine’s highest offices, new AMA president Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, has completed an unlikely journey.

Annual Meeting
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Patrice A. Harris, M.D., inaugurated as 174th president of the AMA

Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A., was sworn in today as the 174th president of the AMA. Dr. Harris is the first African-American woman to hold the office.

Press Releases
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AMA strengthens its policies promoting naloxone access and education

Physicians and medical students acted today to strengthen existing AMA policy promoting increased access to naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversing drug.

Press Releases
AMA CEO and Executive Vice President James L. Madara, MD durimg 2019 Annual Meeting.
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21st century medicine must tackle health inequity: AMA CEO

James L. Madara, MD, tells the AMA House of Delegates that efforts to reshape medicine won’t succeed unless they put equity front and center.

Annual Meeting