Senator Warner spoke yesterday at an annual conference on implementing health care information technology (IT). From his position as a former technology investor and co-founder of Nextel, and current position on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology, the Senator stressed the importance of making sure new health IT products can interact effectively with each other, much like how cell phones created by different manufacturers and operating on different networks can still communicate.

"We need to figure out in the next year or two – not the next five or 10 – how to get equipment made by different vendors to allow for searches, transactions and for exchange of information between different vendors," Senator Warner said.

You can watch video of the entire conference, including Senator Warner's remarks, here: http://www.healthit.gov/oncmeeting/webcast/.