AMA Update for Nov. 15, 2024: Practicing medicine in your hometown and the challenges facing rural health care with Marshfield Clinic interim CEO
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12 MIN READ

Helping patients in your hometown and improving rural health care with Marshfield Clinic interim CEO

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the challenges facing rural health care.

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Population Care
AMA Update

Help Move Medicine

Medicine doesn’t stand still, and neither do we. AMA members don’t just keep up with medicine—they shape its future.

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12 MIN READ

Helping patients in your hometown and improving rural health care with Marshfield Clinic interim CEO [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about the challenges facing rural health care.

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Population Care
AMA Update Podcast
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5 MIN READ

These health systems take big steps to provide care at home

At-home care for patients can make a difference in health outcomes, but there are obstacles to overcome. AMA Health System Program members lead the way.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
Alpa Shah, MD
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7 MIN READ

What it’s like in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry

Alpa Shah, MD, feels the most rewarding part of perinatal and reproductive psychiatry is helping women make informed decisions for a healthy pregnancy.

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Specialty Profiles
"Shadow Me" Specialty Series
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5 MIN READ

Marshfield Clinic tackles burnout by first helping the individual

Battling the burnout epidemic requires system-level change, and Marshfield Clinic Health System is keeping the focus where it counts: on the physician.

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Physician Health
Health System Spotlight
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8 MIN READ

In gauging physician burnout, not all surveys measure up

Measuring burnout comes first, but what comes next? That is what Marshfield Clinic Health System is learning by measuring with the AMA.

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Physician Health
Health System Spotlight
2024 Annual Meeting of the HOD
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33 MIN READ

Highlights from the 2024 AMA Annual Meeting

Catch up with the news and key moments as the House of Delegates bolsters the AMA's work on Medicare pay, scope creep, prior authorization and more. 

Annual Meeting
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7 MIN READ

Home-recovery program leads to 44% reduction in readmission rate

Marshfield Clinic was an early adopter of the hospital-at-home idea that improves outcomes. Now Congress must act to boost it in every health system.

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Digital
Health System Spotlight
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11 MIN READ

How 17 health systems rose to meet the moment in 2023

Burnout. Inflation. Staff shortages. Medicare pay cuts. They all hit this year. Learn how these health systems responded to drive medicine’s future.

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Physician Health
Health System Spotlight