HealthIT Answers June 24, 2024
The American Medical Association (AMA) gathered physician and medical student leaders from all corners of medicine at its Annual Meeting of the House of Delegates to shape guiding policies on emerging health care topics.
The new policies adopted on the final voting day of voting at the AMA Annual Meeting include improving health care of minority communities in rural areas, increasing awareness of high dose biotin interference in lab test results, calling on stores selling tobacco products to post information about anti-smoking hotlines, decreasing youth access to e-cigarettes, regulating nicotine analogue products, and protecting physician practices and patients against cyber security attacks.
Improving health care of minority communities in rural areas
According to the CDC, more than 46 million people,...