CT Lin is best known in healthcare circles for his informatics-themed ukulele parodies. "It's Not About the Tech" reveals that the music was always beside the point. Read this book to understand computers. Read it more carefully to understand people. -Robert Wachter, MD. Chair of Medicine, UCSF. Author, A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future
CT has championed digital transformation in healthcare over the last 3 decades. His book captures why implementation, workflow, and clinician engagement matter even more than the innovation itself. --Jackie Gerhart, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Epic Systems
It's Not About the Tech teaches practical informatics through stories of success and failure from EHR work. The book comprises bite-sized case studies that illustrate self-development as a tactic for improving teamwork, change management, and leadership in complex healthcare environments.
The Premise: This book is a portable mentor for the next generation of informaticists. Only 20% of the success of a healthcare technology project is about the technology. The other 80% is the psycho-socio-political skills of the team implementing it. After 30 years of practicing medicine and implementing electronic health records, Dr. Lin learned this the hard way.
About the Author :
CT Lin, MD spent 30 years at the University of Colorado as Professor of Medicine and 20 years as CMIO at UCHealth - Colorado. He trained at UCDavis, Harvard, and Stanford. He is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics. He champions patient information transparency, invented APSO notes and EHR Sprints and led EHR and AI adoption in an organization that achieved Most Wired level 10 and HIMSS stage 7. His blog reaches 14,000 readers. Also: plays ukulele EHR parody songs. He posts regularly at: https: //ctlin.blog
Review :
CT Lin is an excellent communicator.
-Jill VanWyk, MD
In It's Not About the Tech, CT Lin brilliantly bridges the gap between digital
innovation and clinical execution, proving that the true power of health infor -
mation technology lies beyond the code itself. This book provides an essential
roadmap for turning sophisticated tools into meaningful impacts for the patients
and communities we serve.
-Dr. Philip Payne, MD (President and Chair, American Medical Informatics
Association)
Most health systems invest as if technology is the answer. This book politely (and
repeatedly) proves otherwise. Through memorable anecdotes, it makes the case
that transformation lives or dies in the space between workflow, incentives, and
trust.
-Craig Joseph, MD (Chief Medical Officer, Nordic Global)
This book will undoubtedly guide the next generation as we build teams equipped
with the skills vital for successful digital transformation. Dr. Lin's leadership,
marked by grace and humility, will continue to light the path for those who follow.
-Margaret Lozovatsky, (Chief Digital and Information Officer, PremierHealth)
CT Lin spent thirty years learning what every health system relearns the hard
way: The technology was never the hard part. Every CMIO knows the project that
worked on paper and died at the bedside. CT names why.
-Adam Carewe, MD (Founder of NerdMDs and "Retired" CMIO)
An excellent treatise on the theory and practice of clinical informatics as taught
by a master of the trade. This book is essential reading for all clinical informatics
practitioners.
-William Hersh, MD (Professor at Division of Informatics, Clinical Epidemiology,
and Translational Data Science, Oregon Health & Science University)
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