No matter how you shine your crystal ball, The Obama Factor keeps showing up, whether it’s looking back to a tumultuous 2009 in healthcare, or ahead to a hopefully calmer 2010.

One of the most important happenings in health IT wasn’t a technological development but a legislative one: the federal HITECH act (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health) enacted as a component of the Stimulus Act, created as an incentive for healthcare providers to acquire an electronic patient record. Read more...