Introduction to Informatics Standards by Virginia Lorenzi
The lecture was about health informatics standards, how they are developed, how they are adopted, and the challenges involved. Story about the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904[1]. Standards are about increasing the utility of something by enhancing how it is reused, compared, and shared. Healthcare needs standards too and enacting standards here improves it. A key word here is "interop": it is ultimately about semantic harmonization. Two different systems come to the same conclusion with the same data (Dr. Weng @DBMI is a Red Belt at this).