When I was talking about standards, I would agree that it's about outcomes and innovations, but you need to ensure that whatever it's doing, it is secure, it's something that does meet privacy regulations, that the data is organized in a standard way. One of the challenges we have right now is that there is no data that is common. So whether the cholesterol is entered in a certain way, it's very difficult to compare them. That's one of the key things we have to have. That's where I think the federal government can play a huge role in helping us to understand how we enter our data so that it is common and as researchers we can compare data across jurisdictions.
On February 12th, 2013. See this statement in context.