Structured Methods

Loraine Lawson wrote: “The wonderful thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.” Fridsma knows the struggle of standards first-hand: He is overseeing the effort to sift through standards for electronic medical records as acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. (It's important to note that this is not a standards body, but rather an open effort to sift through the existing standards to see what works and what doesn't.