Twenty-seven. That’s how many potential sources of error can falsely raise or lower a patient’s blood pressure reading. Eight of these potential errors involve ...

This AMA FAQ helps medical students get off to a strong start by answering some of their most common questions. From an M1’s white-coat ceremony though graduation day several years later, medical ...

Eighty-four percent of all state Medicaid plans now cover (PDF) home or self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) monitoring devices. But 25 of those states go beyond covering home BP monitors to also ...

Education matters, especially when it comes to health care. Patients know it too—more than 90% say a physician’s years of education and training are vital to optimal patient care. Yet there are ...

Physicians often spend their days doing the wrong work for their patients. Under the prevalent care-delivery model, physicians are required to do both “solution shop” work—solving unstructured ...

The AMA helps physicians build a better future for medicine, advocating in the courts and on the Hill to remove obstacles to patient care and confront today’s greatest health crises. “I am honored to ...

In today’s AMA Update, leading AI transformation advisor and author of Hacking Health Care Tom Lawry joins us to discuss what the future of AI in medicine looks like and what it means for physicians ...

AMA membership offers unique access to savings and resources tailored to enrich the personal and professional lives of physicians, residents and medical students. NIH’s National Institute of Allergy ...

What are top stressors for doctors? How common is physician burnout? What are the most stressful medical specialties? Is administrative burden in health care fixable? Christine Sinsky, MD, a general ...

As many health systems and organizations work on advancing value-based care to prioritize patient outcomes and cost efficiency, a new tool has emerged as a partner: augmented intelligence (AI), often ...

In 2022, the proportion of medical liability insurance premiums that increased from the previous year was 36.2%—the highest rate seen since 2005. And among the premiums that increased last year, the ...

Welcome, members of the 119th Congress. You have a tremendous opportunity to bring meaningful and long-overdue changes to health care that will better support physicians, remove barriers for patients, ...