CT Lin is writing a book! Are you interested?

The title: "It's Not About the Tech: From Potholes to Piglets, Real Life Lessons in Health IT" It is a distillation of 30 years of lessons from working in informatics in leadership at a large academic and integrated health system.

I have been working on drafts of this book for the past few years, on weekends and in my off-hours. Some of you have been kind enough to react to early drafts. Although some of the material is drawn from posts from this blog, much of it is brand new material.

This book is written for informaticists and medical leaders working at the intersection of medicine and technology, a conjunction that is growing rapidly, especially with the introduction of predictive as well as generative AI. I think some of my hard lessons might be useful to you. I call this conjunction Practical Informatics.

Here’s the link to a page describing my book, that has a place for you to leave your email address to indicate your interest to hear from me when the book is published, which I hope to have ready by sometime in June or July 2026.

A double espresso mocha is helpful when doing lots of writing and editing.

Getting out to see the sunshine also helps. I hope you are all retaining some balance in your daily lives.

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