American Medical Association Announces Policies Adopted During Interim Meeting
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The policies adopted by the
Protecting residents and fellows displaced by unexpected teaching hospital closures
In light of the recent closure of
"We have an ethical obligation to do everything we can to provide assistance to physicians-in-training who are left in professional and financial limbo after their teaching institution closes unexpectedly. By no fault of their own, these residents and fellows are forced to find new training programs and many face deep financial hardships as a result," said AMA Board Chair
In July, after
Additionally, the AMA, in partnership with the
Modernizing public health surveillance to alleviate the burden on physicians and improve data
The AMA adopted policy recognizing public health surveillance as a core public health function essential to informing decision making, identifying underlying causes, and responding to acute, chronic and emerging health threats. The AMA's new policy calls for increased state and local funding to modernize the country's public health data systems to improve the quality and timeliness of the data. To help alleviate the burden of reporting on physicians, the policy also supports efforts underway to implement electronic case reporting--a process by which reportable conditions are automatically generated from EHR systems directly to public health agencies for review and action.
Additionally, to ensure reporting requirements for new diseases are based on scientific evidence and will meet the needs of population health, the AMA encourages state legislatures to engage state and national medical specialty societies and public health agencies when proposing new mandatory disease reporting requirements.
"We know that disease surveillance is essential to monitoring, controlling, and preventing disease and clinicians play an important role in this process., However, submitting data to public health agencies can be burdensome and disruptive to workflows for physicians and other mandatory reporters. By modernizing the nation's public health surveillance systems and implementing electronic case reporting, data will automatically be reported directly through EHR systems in accordance with applicable health care privacy and reporting laws--improving the quality and timeliness of the data while also removing the burden on physicians," said AMA Board Member
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