A female nutrionist educating a group on diet.
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4 MIN READ

Targeting populations to overcome barriers in diabetes prevention

This ACO’s integrated, community-based approach to helping their patients with diabetes and prediabetes has reaped rewards and can serve as a model.

Diabetes
Rebecca Prostko, MD, from the Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization
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4 MIN READ

The secrets behind this physician-only ACO’s success

Florida’s Palm Beach ACO is driven by physicians and has achieved outstanding quality and financial results. Discover how they have done it.

Payment & Delivery Models
James Jerzak, MD, family physician
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3 MIN READ

Members Move Medicine: Leading a team-based care transformation

AMA member and family physician James Jerzak, MD, is advancing an approach to care delivery that cuts burnout and achieves better patient outcomes.

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Leadership
Members Move Medicine
A pharmacist discusses options with a patient.
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4 MIN READ

Add a pharmacist to the team to see better outcomes

An integrated health system in Oregon has embedded pharmacists for 20-plus years. Here is how their collaboration with pharmacists works.

Scope of Practice
A stethoscope on top of various medical bar charts.
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5 MIN READ

Real-world examples bring health systems science home

A textbook chapter advances key health systems science concepts by showing how organizations are working to implement them.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
Marianna Kong, MD
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4 MIN READ

How team-based care enhances resident learning

Residents are spending less time in teaching clinics. A team-based care approach can make that time more productive.

Improve GME
A nurse and two doctors talk in an empty white hallway.
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3 MIN READ

Good teammates check their egos, says one chief resident

A chief resident offers insight about the significance of teamwork in a residency program and how a resident can ensure their team’s success.

Residency Life
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7 MIN READ

May 31, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Trump administration plan to lower drug prices, compounding from bulk substances and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
Physician entering data into a laptop.
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4 MIN READ

3 strategies that cut down on physician “pajama time”

Standard workflows and better documentation, in-basket management are the key ingredients in a revamp that saves doctors more than 30 minutes a day.

Sustainability