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AMA Update 595: Artificial intelligence in health information management: Using AI for risk assessment in medicine

5 de mayo de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:11:08 0 Comments

How is AI used in health care data? What does AI help with in health care? How is AI used in emergency rooms? What are the benefits of AI in health care? How is AI used in medical documentation? Learn about using AI in electronic health records to improve patient care and the future of AI in health care with guest Dana Sax, MD, research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and emergency physician at The Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 591: FIT test or colonoscopy? Colon cancer in young adults and cancer screening recommendations

28 de abril de 2025 casimedicos AMA Update 00:15:50 0 Comments

What causes colon cancer? Is colon cancer becoming more common? Is cancer screening effective? Can colon cancer happen at a young age? Can a FIT test detect colon cancer? Our guest is Doug Corley, MD, PhD, chief research officer for The Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🎥 Watch #AMAUpdate for healthcare news for physicians, residents and medical students: https://ama-assn.co/AMAUpdate

💜 Not a physician? Join the Patients Action Network: https://ama-assn.co/PatientsActionNetwork

🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://ama-assn.co/HealthSystems

💩 JAMA study Fecal Immunochemical Test Screening and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death: https://ama-assn.co/JAMAstudy_FITtest

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 437: Applications of AI in health care: Augmented intelligence vs artificial intelligence in medicine

27 de marzo de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:12:18 0 Comments

Benefits of AI in health care: How is AI used by doctors? What is augmented intelligence? How are LLMs used in medicine? What is ambient AI for medical documentation?

Our guest is Vincent Liu, MD, MS, chief data officer, at The Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🏥 Learn more about the AMA Health System Program here: https://bit.ly/AMA_HealthSystemProgram

🧠 Wondering what is the difference between augmented intelligence and artificial intelligence in health care? Check out: https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/augmented-intelligence-medicine

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AMA Update 250: Fighting for PrEP medication coverage under the ACA with Stephen Parodi, MD

30 de enero de 2023 casimedicos AMA Update 00:10:56 0 Comments

How a physician’s quest to ensure patient access to PrEP—a key medication in preventing HIV infection in high-risk patients—has gained national traction with help from the AMA Integrated Physician Practice Section (IPPS).

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 in Oakland, Calif., discusses how the AMA House of Delegates (AMA-HOD) and AMA-IPPS supported action regarding insurance coverage for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis medication, or PrEP, under the Affordable Care Act (#ACA). American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

For more on the AMA’s amicus brief filing and involvement in Braidwood Management v. Becerra case, visit: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/patient-support-advocacy/leave-aca-s-zero-cost-preventive-care-intact-ama-tells

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AMA Update 130: Stephen Parodi, MD, on shifting from pandemic to endemic

7 de marzo de 2022 casimedicos AMA Update 00:22:48 0 Comments

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Stephen Parodi, MD, the executive vice president of external affairs, communications and brand at The Permanente Federation, and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, Calif., about pandemic vs. endemic and what that shift will mean for our COVID-19 response.

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