It's Not About the Tech: From Potholes to Piglets, Real-Life Lessons in Health IT

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.