- Patient Resources - American Medical Association
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials
- CMS has questions on digital health tools. AMA has answers.
The AMA offers guidance to CMS on information blocking, patients’ access to records, fixing prior authorization and making digital health tools useful
- What doctors wish patients knew about sciatica
In this installment, Kevin Taliaferro, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Henry Ford Health, took time to discuss what patients need to know about sciatica Henry Ford Health is a member of the AMA Health System Program, which provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians and care teams with resources to help drive the future of medicine
- Suicide prevention guide to treat at-risk patients
Evaluate and identify at-risk patients or those actively considering suicide and assess their willingness for treatment with a behavioral health clinician Implement a treatment plan that addresses individual risk drivers and provide a benchmark to measure patient progress over time
- 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
- What doctors wish patients knew about atrial fibrillation
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Paari Dominic, MBBS, MPH, a cardiac electrophysiologist and associate professor of internal and cardiovascular medicine at University of Iowa Health Care, took time to discuss AFib and what patients need to
- Patients’ stories push lawmakers to act on prior authorization
Critical changes are need to fix the time-wasting, care-delaying payer process Highlighting prior authorization’s patient impact goes a long way
- What doctors wish patients knew about pneumonia
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew ™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Abdul M Khan, MD, a pulmonologist at Ochsner Health in Kenner, Louisiana, took time to discuss what patients need to know about pneumonia
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