AMA House of Delegates 2018 Annual Meeting Recap

Physician Health
One theme that ran across multiple aspects of the meeting, including the opinions of those standing for election to the Board of Trustees or various councils, was concern over physician health and burnout. Although the AMA is active in many areas that affect this, such as around electronic medical records, prior authorization and other red tape issues, it was agreed that more needs to be done.

Gary Bryant, MD, FACR, is chair of the ACR’s delegation to the AMA House of Delegates.

There is a saying that if the American Medical Association (AMA) did not exist, we would have to invent it. That is just what Dr. Nathan S. Davis did back in 1845 when he called for a national medical convention and laid the foundation for the establishment of the AMA in 1847. This new group would…

Two ACR-led resolutions on in-office specialty drug dispensing and the proposed NIH Public Access Plan passed the House of Delegates and will become AMA policy.

As 2017 unfolds—a year when MACRA begins, lawmakers take steps to dismantle the health reform efforts of the past eight years, and political uncertainty is the rule—it is imperative that the ACR leverage its advocacy agenda by maintaining its seat at the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) House of Delegates (HOD), says Gary Bryant, MD, FACP…

The House of Delegates (HOD) is the policy-making body of the American Medical Association (AMA), and twice a year, representatives of all seated specialties, service societies and state medical associations review hundreds of resolutions to determine which will become AMA policies. Once those policies and priorities are determined or updated, we benefit from the AMA…

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