University of Iowa Health Care’s patient-centered facility offers a full range of services for musculoskeletal care, including surgery and rehab. To build an orthopedic freestanding hospital, ...

Physician leaders and compliance leaders share many of the same goals. To name a few: safe, high-quality patient care; maintaining accreditation; minimizing risks; safeguarding patient privacy; and ...

The physician shortage affects everyone. That’s just one reason the AMA continues to support bipartisan legislative solutions put forth at the federal level such as the Conrad State 30 and Physician ...

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes offer doctors and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures to streamline reporting, increase accuracy and ...

However, there are still key concerns as physicians continue to explore how these tools will impact their practices. Implementation guidance and research, including clinical evidence, remain critical ...

This column is part of a series of firsthand physician accounts that detail how AMA Health System Member Program organizations are moving medicine to support patient health and the medical profession.

The following statement is attributable to: Bruce A. Scott, M.D. President, American Medical Association “For generations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been a trusted ...

When The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) rolled out ambient augmented intelligence (AI) —also known as artificial intelligence—scribes in late 2023, it was with an eye toward solving one of medicine’s ...

A lifelong resident of Flint, Michigan, Dr. Mukkamala has spent decades treating patients in a city that has weathered economic collapse and public health disasters. Flint, he said, is emblematic of ...

In his final address to the House of Medicine, outgoing AMA president Bruce A. Scott, MD, who has taken the message of practicing physicians to America this year, called upon physicians to step up and ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be about 44,020 new cases of thyroid cancer in this country in 2025, with 31,350 among women. This cancer also is often diagnosed at a younger age ...

Myocarditis is “an inflammatory disease of the myocardium that can be caused by a wide array of conditions,” said Dr. Weber. The myocardium is the middle and thickest layer of the heart wall, composed ...