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...

The business value of information technology is a topic that is cause for a lot of discussion. What is the ROI (Return On Investment), for example, for adopting Electronic Medical Records (EMR)? There are skeptics and true believers. Read more...

Who is using Facebook and Twitter in healthcare? And how can these social media tools be plied by hospitals and physicians? While novel online platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and blogs are all the buzz among marketers, only 10 percent of healthcare systems have some type of social media outlet. Read more...