Exclusive AMA data shows that while job stress is easing and satisfaction is rising, each physician specialty requires targeted support. After years of rising, physician burnout rates are showing ...

What’s the news: Last year, 74.4% of physicians surveyed reported that telehealth was used in their medical practices—nearly three times the share in 2018—according to a recent AMA report showing that ...

Study after study has shown that patients and physicians alike have mostly positive things to say about virtual visits during the pandemic. But as the U.S. health care system remakes itself into one ...

Despite mask mandates expiring in states that had the strictest laws and the majority of Americans less conscious about practicing physical distancing, about 4 million Medicare patients received ...

The recent approval of naloxone for over-the-counter (OTC) sale means that people may be able to walk into a store and easily buy a medication that can save lives. But that won’t happen unless the ...

Primary care physicians typically spend 16 minutes of each vacation day on the EHR. Health systems are trying to reverse that trend. A physician’s most intrusive, unwelcome and demanding travel ...

There is no question that telehealth is here to stay. The question is—at what level? It’s a query that Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, the American Telemedicine Association’s board chair, tackled in a recent ...

There are numerous potential uses for augmented intelligence (AI), often called artificial intelligence, in clinical settings. They include informing clinical management; assisting with treatment, ...

Consistent exercise is good for a person’s health and well-being—that much is well-known. But how many minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity are needed to lower the risk of mortality? A ...

Six new studies funded by the AMA will show EHRs’ impact and how to improve their use to help patients and doctors. With funding from the AMA, researchers across the country over the past six years ...

With augmented intelligence (AI), Sanford Health discovered nontraditional risk factors are five times better than traditional in identifying colon cancer risk. Faced with a 2021 U.S. Preventive ...

Nonphysician providers are vital members of the health care workforce. Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists and nurse anesthetists all extend the healing touch of physicians and make ...