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AMDA expands membership to practitioners

March 15, 2017
AMDA in the News
i Advance Senior Care
Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Stewardship, Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Pharmacist, Physician Assistant (PA)
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) announced the formation of a Practice Management Section, a national forum for practitioner-led post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) population management, today at its 40th annual...

AMDA Creates Practice Management Section

March 15, 2017
Press Release
Long-Term Care, Post-Acute Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Payment, Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Practitioners, Attending Physician, Certified Medical Director, Interdisciplinary/Interprofessional Team, Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner (NP), Pharmacist
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine announced the formation of a Practice Management Section, a national forum for practitioner-led post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) population management, today at its 40th Annual...

Society Member Named to Federal HIT Standards Committee

June 30, 2016
Press Release
Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Quality
Terrence O’Malley, MD, CMD, a Massachusetts-based geriatrician and long-time member of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, has been named as the long-term care representative to the federal Health Information Technology...

Survey Reveals Barriers to End-of-Life, Advance Care Planning Discussions

April 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care, Assisted Living, Medicare, Patient Centered, Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Although almost all physicians who treat Medicare beneficiaries think end-of-life and advance care planning conversations are important, many of them report significant barriers to having these discussions with those for whom they care, and 46%...

PointClickCare and gEHRiMed Strengthen Communication Among Care Providers

March 17, 2016
AMDA in the News
Digital Journal
Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT)
PointClickCare, the leading cloud-based software platform for the long-term and post-acute care continuum, announced today at the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) Annual Conference that it has joined forces with gEHRiMed, the creator of...

Connecting Nursing Facilities and Other Post-Acute Care Providers to Electronic Health Information Exchange

Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT), Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
If you could access essential health information electronically from any participating site of care, send and receive standard documents for consultation, evaluation in the emergency department (ED), and transfer to a patient-centered medical home (...

The Pitfalls of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Electronic Health Records (EHR)
NP/PA, Physician
This webinar explains primary considerations in selecting and purchasing an electronic health record (EHR) for use in post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) settings. Speakers: Rod Baird and Kenneth Kubitschek, MD, CMD Learning Objectives: Review...

Electronic Health Records in Long-Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements
Coding, Reimbursement, & Documentation, Practice Management, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Technology (HIT)
NP/PA, Physician
Policy E-14 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine investigate the current availability of and work with appropriate stakeholders to help develop ideal bidirectional electronic message and document...