Electronic health record (EHR) systems have been a challenge for many healthcare professionals in terms of systems not being user-friendly, a lack of interoperability and the concern that the patient-clinician relationship is being compromised as health professionals spend more time looking at computer screens and less time interacting with patients. However, EHRs have the ability to coordinate care for individuals, improve health for populations, increase efficiency, and reduce healthcare costs.

AAPA’s Center for Healthcare Leadership & Management (CHLM) identified five key drivers as criteria for its Employer of Excellence Awards. To help employers attract and retain PAs and improve their bottom line, CHLM explores employer practices that contribute to an ideal PA workplace. This article examines how one organization seeks PA input to facilitate positive organizational change.

PAs can be influential in convincing adult patients, particularly those ages 65 and above, to get a flu vaccine. With the CDC naming Dec. 3-9, 2017, as National Influenza Vaccination Week, it is timely and important to talk to patients about the dangers of flu and strategies for prevention.

Jennifer L. Dorn, AAPA CEO, interviewed Cari Dominguez, ManpowerGroup Director, about the issue of wage parity for female PAs.

Despite their seven-year age difference, two sisters from Virginia are attending PA school at the same time. Debbie and Stephanie Smith have both been interested in medicine from a young age, but their paths to becoming a PA have been very different.

James Anderson, PA-C, MPAS, DFAAPA, shared his key insights about opioid-use disorder in a Huddle “Ask Me” session on AAPA’s members-only community.

The American Academy of PAs (AAPA) had representatives attend the American Medical Association (AMA) interim meeting of its House of Delegates (HOD) earlier this month in Hawaii where new policy related to PAs essentially confirmed existing AMA policy.