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It's Not About the Tech

From Potholes to Piglets, Real-Life Lessons in Health IT

By: CT Lin

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Paperback | 1 August 2026

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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.

Industry Reviews

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)

More from Dr. CT Lin at https://ctlin.blog/

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