Topic in Focus: Telehealth Adoption

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AMA commends federal support to expand pediatric mental health care access

Fund will make behavioral health care more accessible and equitable to children and adolescents.

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May 21, 2021: National Advocacy Update

COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act enacted and more in the latest National Advocacy Update.

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New AMA effort reenvisions a value framework for virtual care

Return on Health helps define and measure the benefits generated by digitally enabled care.

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Patients, doctors like telehealth. Here’s what should come next.

Massive survey shows how patients and physicians feel about telehealth. Learn what’s needed to protect and improve this mode of care.

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Pandemic’s telehealth advances will be lost if Congress doesn’t act

Geographic, site restrictions on patient access to telemedicine should be eliminated for good, AMA says in House Ways and Means testimony.

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Removing stigma, advancing evidence-based care at Mount Sinai

Learn about an innovative primary care program at the New York hospital that helps people with opioid-use disorder get the care they need.

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Treating behavioral health to boost patients’ overall outcomes

Learn how physicians are integrating behavioral health care into their primary care practices to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions.

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8 keys to end the nation’s drug-overdose epidemic

The CDC is reporting a record-breaking annual toll of nearly 90,000 U.S. overdose deaths. Learn about the policy steps needed to stem the tide.

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Physicians can make most of telehealth—even after COVID’s gone

Learn with the AMA about an initiative that helps physician practices adopt telehealth and continuously adapt to its demands.

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