AMA Releases Great Guide To Digital Health Implementation

In the past, I’ve been pretty hard on the AMA when it comes to digital health. Last year I gave the organization a particularly hard time when it rolled out its Physician Innovation Network platform, which is designed to help physicians network directly with health tech firms, as it seemed to be breaking little to no ground. However, to be fair the AMA has been a relatively quiet but solid presence in health IT for quite some time.  Its health IT efforts include cofounding Health2047, which brings together doctors with established health IT companies to help the companies launch services and products, serving as one of four organizations behind mHealth app standards venture Xcertia and managing a student-run biotechnology incubator in collaboration with Sling Health. But what it hasn’t done so far, at least to date, has been to offer physicians any hands-on guidance on using emerging health IT. Now, at long last, the AMA has taken the plunge, releasing a guide focused on helping physicians roll out digital health technology in their practice. At least this time around, I have to give the organization a high five. The new guide takes a lifecycle perspective, helping practices work through the digital health implementation process from preparations to rollout to gathering data on the impact of the new technology. In other words, it lays out the process as a feedback loop rather than a discrete event in time, which is smart. And its approach to explaining each step is conci...
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