Health care professionals’ use of social media can pose ethical challenges related to the boundary between professional and personal identities, privacy, confidentiality, and the trustworthiness of health care professionals.

If a medical decision about high-value care involves a conflict between the principles of beneficence and justice, an explicit analysis of the individual case is necessary to ensure that the interests of both the patient and society are served.

Although palliative care is high-value because it reduces costs and improves the quality and quantity of life, its implementation is hampered by stigma, a shortage of palliative care specialists, and a lack of adequate palliative care education.

High-value care principles can be incorporated into medical education by training medical students to serve as HVC officers during clerkships and to publish their experiences with the potential or actual harms of medical overuse.

High-value care can best be achieved by tailoring the delivery of care to the needs of a specific segment of the patient population to improve outcomes and by addressing patients’ needs in an efficient and scalable manner.

The price transparency movement seeks to make actual medical costs clear to patients and clinicians.

The escalating costs of health care call for the promotion of cost transparency and physician training on how to discuss medical costs with patients.

Countering the prevailing thought that more medical testing and treatment is always better can be achieved by creating a forum for open discussion of costs and value to prevent patient harm from overuse.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinion on physician stewardship.

Teaching high-value care requires curricular aids, faculty training, dialogue and teamwork among residents and supervising faculty, and evaluating attending physicians on their practice and teaching of high-value care.