Several agencies under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have teamed up to release a guide on how these healthcare providers can achieve the meaningful use benefits.

In recent weeks, a number of news stories have indicated that eprescribing is being used by doctors around the country to improve patient health, curb prescription drug abuse and reduce costs for the private practices and small medical facilities that rely on the software.

On December 20, Deltek Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions software, announced the results of a new survey on federal spending called the “Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2011-2016.”

While the Republican presidential primaries are far from over, the most recent polling shows that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has a comfortable lead when compared to the other top candidates in the field.

While recent reports indicate the prescription drug epidemic is affecting many parts of America, New York City announced that it would be taking special measures to curb the practice on December 13.

On November 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that doctors and small medical facilities who enter into EMR incentive programs in 2011 won’t be required to meet Stage 2 of meaningful use until 2014, effectively pushing back the deadline by an entire calendar year.

On November 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new press release meant to address the state of health information technology and its use in today’s medical facilities.

While this transition has been coming for quite some time, the American Medical Association (AMA) moved to push back the deadline on November 28.

Due in part to a rising demand among the nation’s medical facilities and government incentives, a new report by Millennium Research Group (MRG) suggests that the electronic medical record software industry is about to experience a period of frenzied growth.

While many medical facilities weathered this transition smoothly before the 2007 deadline, some newer doctors and practices may be wondering exactly how they can ensure NPI compliance with all of the recent technological upgrades.