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Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House adviser on healthcare policy, says high-touch is the way to fix the nation’s failing – and costly – healthcare system. In his keynote talk at the Medical Group Management Association in Denver on Sunday Emanuel called for patient-centered, data-driven physician practices.

Health Level Seven, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 57 countries, has added Hong Kong to its growing number of more than 30 affiliates.

Thanks to federal grant money, the Hamilton Community Health Network, a 25-physician, six-campus practice serving Flint, Mich. - an area that has been particularly hit hard by the economic crisis - will be able to implement an electronic medical record.

Aneesh Chopra, the nation's chief technology officer, appealed to the Health 2.0 community this week to help bring "game-changing innovation" to healthcare.

A coalition of smart card industry executives is calling on the government to establish standards for identity management to help prevent the thousands of deaths that occur each year when healthcare providers misidentify a patient

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology on Tuesday launched a new modular certification program called Preliminary ARRA 2011, which will focus solely on "meaningful use" objectives and accompanying standards needed to qualify for federal stimulus funding.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $4.8 million grant to researchers at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute to create the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers in the nation.

LiveData, Inc., a real-time data integration technology company, has been awarded a $730,000 grant from the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center to pursue standardization of information integration technologies.

At least 50,000 new health information management jobs will be needed as the nation moves from a paper to a digital healthcare system, the nation's healthcare IT chief said Tuesday.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is set to launch its 2011 certification program, designed to help hospitals and physician practices show the meaningful use of IT that is required to qualify for federal incentives.