AMA keeps docs alert to ethics.AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. keeps docs alert to ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a . The AMA says it will provide free "ethics alerts" to physicians via ePocrates' DocAlert messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent for PDAs. The alerts are designed to offer physicians practical guidance in dealing with ethical challenges in medical practice. The AMA's Ethics Standards Division will create the bimonthly bi·month·ly adj. 1. Happening every two months. 2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly. adv. 1. Once every two months. 2. Twice a month; semimonthly. n. pl. messages, which ePocrates Rx users will receive when they hot-sync their handhelds. The alerts will provide links to in-depth coverage of current issues-such as how physicians should respond to increasing numbers of patient e-mails--on the AMA Web site. The alerts will go to more than 260,000 physicians. |
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