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Should AI be used in health care? Risks, regulations, ethics and benefits of AI in medicine Feb 09, 2024

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How is AI used in the medical field? Who regulates AI in healthcare? In this episode: how AI is disrupting healthcare and patient data privacy. Our guest is Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president of external affairs, communications and brand at The Permanente Federation and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. ⚖️ Learn more about AMA policy and guidelines for AI in medicine: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-ai-principles.pdf 📊 How do doctors feel about AI? Find out in the AMA Augmented Intelligence Research (AI in healthcare PPT): https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/physician-ai-sentiment-report.pdf 🗞️ For more AMA AI in healthcare articles visit: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/augmented-intelligence-medicine 🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://bit.ly/AMA_HealthSystemProgram 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

Syphilis symptoms and causes, Bicillin shortage, cancer cases rise, and why sitting is so bad for us Feb 07, 2024

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Why are syphilis cases on the rise? In this episode: what doctors need to know about syphilis transmission, how to treat syphilis, plus congenital syphilis. AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, also shares the latest cancer statistics, why cancer cases are on the rise and tips to reduce the harmful effects of sitting. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 💊 Sexually Transmitted Infections #STI CDC Treatment Guidelines: https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/default.htm 🚼 For more on congenital syphilis treatment and babies born with syphilis, watch: https://youtu.be/CG3HIYVYadw?si=ufH2ByNvthLno1gJ&t=544 📈 2022 CDC STI Surveillance Report: https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2022/default.htm 🦠 Who is most affected by syphilis? For more on how is syphilis spread and what populations are affected by syphilis, see CDC STDs fact sheet: https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm 🪑 New study on the side effects of sitting, read Occupational Sitting Time, Leisure Physical Activity, and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814094 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

Augmented intelligence: Pros and cons of AI in health care and clinical workflow optimization Feb 06, 2024

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How can AI improve health care? In this episode: successful implementation of telehealth, improving medical office workflow and the future of healthcare technology. Our guest is the AMA's new vice president of Digital Health Innovations, Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, who also discusses why physicians must be involved in the development of the tools they use and how the AMA is working to make technology an asset to physicians and not a burden. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 📲 Learn how to create a telehealth program, get telehealth best practice guidelines, and more from the AMA Telehealth Implementation Playbook: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/telehealth-implementation-playbook-overview 💻 How to improve administrative workflows in clinical practice: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/these-4-workflow-changes-help-cut-burnout-45 📊 How do doctors feel about AI? Find out in the AMA Augmented Intelligence Research report: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/physician-ai-sentiment-report.pdf 🌐 AMA Physician Innovation Network (PIN): https://innovationmatch.ama-assn.org/ 🎓 AMA STEPS Forward Innovation Academy: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/ama-steps-forward/ama-steps-forward-innovation-academy 🥼 AMA efforts on reducing physician burnout: https://bit.ly/AMARecoveryPlan_Burnout 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

PFAS health effects and CDC guidelines on how to reduce PFAS exposure with Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH Feb 02, 2024

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Where do PFAS come from? Can you get rid of PFAS in your body? In this episode, the CDC covers PFAS products, forever chemicals in food, how to avoid PFAS and what physicians need to know about PFAS symptoms. Our guest is Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, the director for the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Bernstein also shares guidelines for physicians on when to test for perfluoroalkyl, or, per- and polyfluorinated substances, PFAS in patients and how PFAS exposure can be harmful. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🥼 ATSDR PFAS clinical guidance: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/resources/pfas-information-for-clinicians.html 🚼 More on how PFAS affects babies, PFAS breastfeeding side effects and contaminants in breast milk (PDF): https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/docs/PFAS-Breastfeeding-H.pdf 🚰 EPA Drinking Water Health Advisories for PFOA and PFOS: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-pfoa-and-pfos 💧 EPA PFAS regulations and Safe Drinking Water Act information: https://www.epa.gov/sdwa 🔍 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine NASEM Guidance on PFAS Exposure: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26156/guidance-on-pfas-exposure-testing-and-clinical-follow-up 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

How to prevent measles, who should take Paxlovid, plus the latest research on COVID and pregnancy Jan 31, 2024

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How is measles spread? In this episode: MMR vaccine age, signs of measles, new studies on maternal COVID vaccination, who should get Paxlovid, and chronic COVID-19. AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, shares what doctors need to know about why measles cases are on the rise both here and abroad. Also a look at COVID vaccination during pregnancy and its positive impact on newborns, as well as new research data on the long-term effects of COVID known as "chronic COVID". American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🦠 CDC measles cases and outbreaks: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html 📋CDC measles fact sheet PDF: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/Measles-fact-sheet-508.pdf 🚼 New COVID 19 pregnancy study - Respiratory distress in SARS-CoV-2 exposed uninfected neonates followed in the COVID Outcomes in Mother-Infant Pairs (COMP) Study in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44549-5 💊 NIH website for Paxlovid drug interactions: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/antivirals-including-antibody-products/ritonavir-boosted-nirmatrelvir--paxlovid-/paxlovid-drug-drug-interactions/ 🔬 New study in Science Translational Medicine on SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance and evolution varies by type and severity of immunodeficiency: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adk1599 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

What value-based care is and why everyone is talking about it with Maria Ansari, MD Jan 29, 2024

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What is value-based care? Interest in value-based care is at an all-time high. This episode gives an overview of this payment model and explores what's driving this growing interest in it and where the conversation about value-based care is headed in 2024. Our guest is Maria Ansari, MD, CEO and executive director at The Permanente Medical Group. Dr. Ansari also provides insights into barriers to adoption for value-based care and the culture an organization needs to maintain a long-term commitment to value-based care. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://bit.ly/AMA_HealthSystemProgram 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

CMS prior authorization final rule explained with AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH Jan 25, 2024

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AMA advocacy scores a big win for prior authorization reform with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Final Prior Authorization and Interoperability Rule (CMS-0057-F). AMA President Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, joins to break down the three reasons why this final rule is so important for patients and physicians and how it is expected to save practices $15 billion over the next decade. Plus, what’s ahead for AMA advocacy efforts on prior authorization reform in 2024. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🆕 AMA President Dr. Ehrenfeld on $15 billion win for physicians to improve patient care: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/patients-physicians-score-important-win-prior-authorization-rule 📰 Read about the changes coming in CMS Interoperability Rule 2026: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/15-billion-win-physicians-prior-authorization 🗣 Get involved! Patients and physicians can share prior authorization stories at: https://fixpriorauth.org/ 📊 Access AMA reports and prior authorization research: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/prior-authorization-research-reports 📚 Free prior authorization reform resources and model legislation: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/prior-authorization-reform-resources 🏛️ Stay up to date on the AMA's advocacy efforts to fix prior authorization: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/prior-authorization/advocacy-action-fixing-prior-authorization 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

New long COVID study results, a possible Paxlovid alternative, and RSV vaccine updates for babies Jan 24, 2024

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A check-in on COVID, flu and RSV cases, and an overview of new COVID and Long Covid studies. AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, reports that the tripledemic wave is declining, but vaccination levels for COVID, flu and RSV among adults are still low. Plus, continued supply issues for the RSV vaccine for children, administration errors for the RSV vaccine, and two new studies that could inform future treatments for COVID and Long COVID. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 💧 Wastewater COVID dashboard via CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS): https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html 💉 Searching for "free COVID vaccine near me" or "where to get flu shot"? Find vaccines in your area at: https://www.vaccines.gov/find-vaccines/ 💊 New England Journal of Medicine "Oral Simnotrelvir for Adult Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Covid-19": https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2301425 🔬 American Association for the Advancement of Science Magazine study on Immune damage in Long COVID—Links between the complement and coagulation systems could lead to Long Covid therapies: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn1077 🌡️ Patient experiencing vaccine side effects and adverse effects following vaccination? Visit Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System VAERS website: https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html 🗺️ CDC flu map FluView Weekly US Map and Influenza Summary Update: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm 🦠 Looking for "covidtests.gov free tests"? Free home COVID test kits by mail still available: https://www.covid.gov/tests 🧪 Wondering "do expired COVID tests work"? Check COVID test expiration date extensions here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests#list 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

AI in medicine, new therapeutics for Alzheimer's and GLP-1 for weight loss with JAMA editor-in-chief Jan 23, 2024

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JAMA Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, joins to discuss what’s ahead for the publication and medicine as a whole in 2024. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo shares goals and key initiatives for JAMA in the new year and discusses what the biggest trends in medicine will be in 2024. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🎙Listen to the latest JAMA podcasts: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/ama-podcasts 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

What does Medicare cost: How physician pay cuts in 2024 impact patient care with Alice Coombs, MD Jan 18, 2024

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The real-world consequences of declining Medicare physician payment. From, 2001 to 2023, Medicare payment has declined 26% when adjusted for inflation. Alice Coombs, an anesthesiologist and internist at Virginia Commonwealth University Health joins to discuss the ways this underpayment impacts physicians and patient care, including longer wait times and less access to care. Dr. Coombs also shares how physicians can advocate for change based on her experience as the president of the Medical Society of Virginia. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts. 🗣 Get involved! Tell Congress to fix Medicare now: https://fixmedicarenow.org/ ❓ Check out AMA's Medicare Basics series to get all your Medicare questions answered: https://bit.ly/AMA_MedicareBasics 💸 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and more Medicare explained updates here: https://medicare-reform.ama-assn.org/ 🆓 Wondering what is the Medicare cut for 2024? Medicare resources for doctors and Medicare PDF free download: https://fixmedicarenow.org/resources 📰 For the latest Medicare news, visit: https://fixmedicarenow.org/news 📨 Stay up to date on all the latest advocacy news by subscribing to AMA Advocacy Update: https://bit.ly/AMA_AdvocacyUpdate 🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://bit.ly/AMAJoinRenew

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