During Super Bowl week and on the big day, this New Orleans health system will use cutting-edge tech to help fans get the medical attention they need. With the buzz building ahead of Super Bowl LIX in ...

It’s been nearly a decade since the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) made its debut and hard data show that it’s just not working for patients or physicians. It’s been nearly a decade since ...

Often wrongly called the “stomach flu,” norovirus sickens tens of millions of Americans annually. Two physicians explain how to prevent and treat it. It seems as though everyone has experienced a ...

How to be healthy in the new year: What is lifestyle medicine? Does lifestyle medicine work? What are the benefits of lifestyle medicine? How to become a lifestyle medicine doctor? Our guest and chair ...

There is a common equation used to show health care value: Value equals quality plus patient experience divided by cost. The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the ...

As retirement age approaches, physicians naturally begin to think about stepping down or scaling back, but recent data from an AMA survey shows that more than one-third of all physicians are ...

Bobby Mukkamala, MD, an otolaryngologist from Flint, Michigan, was voted president-elect of the AMA by physicians and medical students gathered at the 2024 AMA Annual Meeting. Following a year-long ...

The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...

AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...

Climate change is already having devastating consequences that are reverberating across the globe. As temperatures continue to rise, extreme weather events, melting ice caps and shifting ecosystems ...

Is Louisiana a healthy state? How does geography affect health care? Why are community health programs important? How is health care affected by socioeconomic status? Yvens Laborde, MD, chief ...

Benefits of AI in health care: How is AI used by doctors? What is augmented intelligence? How are LLMs used in medicine? What is ambient AI for medical documentation? Our guest is Vincent Liu, MD, MS, ...