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Could A.I. Turn The Tables On The Physician Burnout Epidemic?
There’s an urgent need to lower the staggering levels of physician burnout around the globe as it results in reduced quality of life for the medical community, decreased levels of patient care – and a worsening human resources crisis in the long run. While technology, especially EHRs, are often considered as an essential factor contributing to physician burnout, we expect artificial intelligence to significantly reduce the administrative burden an improve medical professionals’ work experience in the future. < The rough numbers of physician burnout The emotional and mental well-being of medical professionals...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 31, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine administration administrative AI burnout digital health EHR future health technology Healthcare Innovation medical medical records physician physician burnout Source Type: blogs

Toward More Effective Self-Regulation in Medicine
Through special arrangement with Taylor & Francis, AJOB posts its editorials on bioethics.net. This essay and the articles it references are also available on the publisher website. by Barbara L. McAneny & Elliott J. Crigger PROFESSIONAL SELF-REGULATION AND THE AMA Protecting public safety and ensuring that the medical profession is worthy of public trust have been at the heart of the mission of the American Medical Association (AMA) since its inaugural meeting in 1847. Promoting the quality of medical education and promulgating standards for ethical professional conduct is fundamental to that mission.… (So...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 30, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Editorial-AJOB Featured Posts professional ethics Source Type: blogs

The Role Of Medical Associations In The Digital Health Era
The Digital Health Implementation Playbook, released by the AMA recently, marks an essential step in the expansion of the functions of medical associations as promoters of digital health and as guides for application of disruptive solutions in the 21st century. Here, we provide an overview of the development paths of medical associations from book clubs until advocacy networks – and draw up a potential way towards digitally savvy innovation hubs. From medical book clubs to knowledge societies Societies, associations or groups comprising of doctors, pharmacists or other representatives of the medical profession have been...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Professionals Policy Makers AMA digital health Education groups history history of medicine implementation medical association medical associations medical groups medical societies Source Type: blogs

THCB Spotlight: Jesse Ehrenfeld, AMA
Today, we are featuring Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld from the American Medical Association (AMA) on THCB Spotlight. Matthew Holt interviews Dr. Ehrenfeld, Chair-elect of the AMA Board of Trustees and an anesthesiologist with the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The AMA has recently released their Digital Health Implementation Playbook, which is a guide to adopting digital health solutions. They also launched a new online platform called the Physician Innovation Network to help connect physicians with entrepreneurs and developers. Watch the interview to find out more about how the AMA is supporting health innovation, as wel...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 11, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Artificial Intelligence Physicians Tech THCB Spotlights AI AMA American Medical Association CVS-Aetna digital health health innovation Jesse Ehrenfeld Source Type: blogs

What Aren ’ t You Telling Your Doctor?
“A Stethoscope Is Not A Mind Reading Device!” Most patients withhold vital information from their doctors according to a study recently released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Even when people understand how important it is to share critical information about medications, lifestyle, and symptoms, most people in the study survey didn’t tell their doctors about at least one of the seven types of important information including: They disagree with the doctor’s recommendation They don’t understand the doctor’s instructions They aren’t taking the medications the do...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - December 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Call obesity what it is: a disease
In 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced its decision to classify obesity as a disease, moving against the recommendation at the time of a group studying obesity. Yet there are still those who believe that obesity is not a disease but rather a “condition,” and this has downstream ramifications for health policy, health care […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 25, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/albert-do" rel="tag" > Albert Do, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Conditions Obesity Primary Care Source Type: blogs

I Suspect We Are Going To Be Hearing More Complaints Of This Sort In Australia Soon.
This appeared last week:AMA president calls for end to electronic health record abuse By Greg SlabodkinPublished November 14 2018, 7:24am ESTThe nation ’s largest physician group is calling for an end to electronic health record “abuse” which is relegating doctors to the role of data entry clerks and leading to widespread professional burnout. According to the American Medical Association, the problem of physician burnout is impacting about 5 0 percent of practicing doctors, and EHRs are squarely to blame, given that for every hour physicians spend on direct patient care they spend two hours on EHR data entry and oth...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Can Money Buy You Longevity And Health?
Better treatment options, dietary conditions and (perhaps) less stress could make the life of the rich also healthier. However, when it comes to longevity and aging, do they really have better chances? Can the upper 0.1 percent secure their health for long decades or even reverse the process of growing old? Could society somehow also benefit from the quest of the richest for longevity? Are health and longevity on the shopping list? You can have an awful lot of things with money. For a starter, you can buy ice cream or Nutella, which are synonymous to self-love, so the Beatles was only partly right in singing that you can�...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers age aging aging research blood eternal life genetics immortality Innovation life sciences longevity silicon valley stem cell Source Type: blogs

Better Late Than Never?
As I have written many times before, the opioid prescribing guidelines put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention have been criticized for not being evidence-based. This has even caused the Food and Drug Administration to begin the process of developing its own set of guidelines.In publishing the guidelines, the CDC emphasized they were meant to be suggestive, not “prescriptive,” pointing out that health care practitioners know their patients’ situations better than any regulators and should therefore individualize their prescribing to meet their patients’ unique needs. That has not prevent...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs