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Physician burnout solutions: Using AI to improve electronic health records and EHR workflows

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about how to use AI to improve EHR workflows.

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AMA Update for May 13, 2024: Physician burnout solutions: Using AI to improve electronic health records and EHR workflows

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AMA Update for April 29, 2024: Benefits of lifestyle medicine, managing chronic disease, plus physician retirement advice
Apr 29, 2024
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Benefits of lifestyle medicine, managing chronic disease, plus physician retirement advice

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Medical societies play big role in righting kidney-care inequity

More than 6,000 Black patients have had unjust kidney-transplant waitlist times remedied. Learn how state and specialty societies helped that happen.
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Are you up to date on COVID-19 vaccine, isolation guidance?

Despite public fatigue, COVID-19 is still a thing. With SARS-CoV-2 still circulating, here’s who needs another COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Protecting the physician-patient relationship

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What doctors wish patients knew about Lyme disease

An early sign of Lyme disease is a bullseye-type rash. But symptoms can worsen if left untreated. Two infectious diseases physicians share more.

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AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Patient-Physician Relationships

Building relationships of trust with patients is fundamental to ethical practice in medicine.

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Advancing public health

The AMA leads the charge on public health. Our members are the frontline of patient care, expanding access to care for underserved patients and developing key prevention strategies.

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Essential AMA resources

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Diabetes prevention & management
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Release the Pressure

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