Practice Management News

The AMA adopted new policies on broader Medicare and Medicaid health care coverage during its annual House of Delegates meeting.

The AMA announced a new policy that supports requirements for drug and device sponsors to develop diversity action plans so that women and sexual and gender minorities are adequately represented in their clinical trials.

SAN ANTONIO — The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology announced a new leadership program aimed at developing the next generation of infection preventionists.

The AMA House of Delegates adopted two new policies aiming to reform prior authorization and the burden it causes patients and physicians.

SAN ANTONIO — An active screening strategy allowed patients with Candida auris to be rapidly identified and isolated to reduce risk of transmission in a health care facility, researchers reported.

On May 8, the health care organization Ascension experienced a cyberattack that disrupted access to its electronic health care records, patient portals, phones and systems used to order tests, medications and procedures.

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SAN ANTONIO — Natural language processing and other branches of AI are already being investigated for use in drug selection and diagnosis, and now researchers have found that AI may also help in infection prevention and surveillance.

Although nearly all health care facilities have antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, researchers are suggesting that pathogen reduction is a promising way to lessen the threat of transmission and risk of resistance.

Serious infections were uncommon among patients with psoriatic arthritis exposed to targeted therapies for the first time in “a large and exhaustive” French cohort, according to data published in RMD Open.