By Molly Bernhart Walker

FierceGovernmentIT

Feb. 9, 2012

Standards drive adoption, said Williams; there are now standardized ways to report medications, record information and vocabulary and content standards for all electronic health record information. Still, more needs to be done, said Janet Marchibroda, chair of the health information technology initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

"We need to get a little further on standards--whether they're data transport standards, data content standards, more easy-to-use guides--in order to apply those standards. So you don't need to be a big, integrated delivery system in order to make those standards work," said Marchibroda.

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