Fundamentally, I would agree that you can't have the wild west in deploying electronic technologies. You have to be comfortable that when my mother's chart is there and a drug is being prescribed, the particular system her doctor is using will recognize drug-to-drug interactions. That is the key aspect. I think it's there that the federal government has a real role to play in ensuring that all systems meet a basic level of security, performance, etc.
On February 12th, 2013. See this statement in context.