RESOLVED, that our Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed), advocates for the legislation that requires and funds real-time bidirectional communication between electronic medical record (EMR) systems across the full medical care continuum and the funding and enforcement of this legislation. PALTmed will work on this legislation with its partner organizations and all relevant stakeholders, including hospital systems and EMR vendors; and be it further
RESOLVED, that our Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) supports its members who wish to implement interoperable systems of bidirectional real-time communications by facilitating partnerships among all provider groups that are integral in care transitions, including hospital systems, accountable care organizations, EMR vendors, pharmacies, outpatient and specialty providers.