COMMENTARY
4 Editor’s Report:
Mary Alice Annecharico, MS, RN, Editor
6 Interoperability:
The Interoperability of Things
Noam H. Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS
10 HIPAA: The Top Ten Things Your
Organization Should Be Doing to Pass an
Audit and Reduce Risk of a Breach
Gerry Blass and Susan Miller, JD
FOCUS: ACHIEVING
CONTINUITY OF CARE
14 Improving Continuity of Care in Long Term
Care: Impact of Health Information Exchange
Rebecca Meehan, PhD
18 Improving Continuity of Care Through
Interdisciplinary Plans of Care:
A Patient-Centered Approach Ensures
Better Outcomes
Romina Hipolito Elias, MSN, RN-BC,
and Clarissa Tojos, RN-BC
26 A General Framework for
Managing Care Transitions
Michael S. Victoroff, MD, Henry L. Mayers, MCP, PMP,
FHIMSS, CPHIMS, and Antonio P. Linares, MD, FAAFP
FEATURES
38 Profile of the Digitization of Patient
Medical Records in Dutch Hospitals
Rube van Poelgeest, Lorren Pettit, Rob J. de Leeuw,
and Guus Schrijvers
47 Fighting Information Blocking in the
Emerging Learning Health System
Noam H. Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS
ontinuity of Care
FOCUS
