News in brief Nominations open soon for the AOIA’s Digital Health Innovation Steering Committee Help shape the evolution of digital technology use within osteopathic medicine. Self-nominations are open from March 31 to April 25. March 26, 2025WednesdayApril 2025 issue AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The AOIA Digital Health Innovation (DHI) Steering Committee serves to shape how digital technologies will enhance—rather than replace—osteopathic principles. Self-nominations are open from March 31 to April 25. To nominate yourself, use the AOIA’s nomination form. As a DHI Steering Committee member, you will: Help ensure digital innovations support hands-on care while expanding access to osteopathic medicine. Influence the development of ethical AI guidelines and standardized competencies that will prepare the next generation of osteopathic physicians to leverage digital tools while maintaining distinctively osteopathic care. Help create a collaborative ecosystem where digital innovations, education, and policy work together to advance osteopathic medicine. Preserve our core principles of whole-person, hands-on care. Ideal candidates should demonstrate expertise across digital health technologies (therapeutics, telehealth, AI, clinical informatics), have leadership experience in health care innovation, and be able to share past success in stakeholder engagement and change management. Nomination submissions are due Friday, April 25, 2025. More in Profession Defining AI for us, by us: Inside the OsteopathicAI vote AOiA establishes OsteopathicAI, a profession-level minimum practice standard for ethical AI use in osteopathic medicine. AOA’s inaugural Physician Payment Policy fellows to study how medical services are valued and paid for in US healthcare Two osteopathic physicians have earned an 18-month fellowship to study medical coding and payment policy to drive patient advocacy. Previous articleThe best and worst states for doctors in 2025 Next articleQ&A: OMM specialist discusses academia, prison medicine and AI in healthcare
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