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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...

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 (...

AMDA Suggests White House Conference on Aging Topics

January 27, 2015
AMDA in the News
Long-Term Living
Advance Care Planning, Long-Term Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Observation Status, Dementia, Medication, Patient Centered, Payment, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Quality, Resident, Right’s
AMDA–The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) has recommended sub-topics within three of the four previously identified areas of focus for the upcoming White House Conference on Aging

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...