Acknowledgments
I must have been thinking about writing this book for several years. Yet the idea for it felt like an epiphany.
My wife, Katie Hafner, has written about technology for the last three decades, much of it for the New York Times. Over the past few years, she has shifted her journalistic focus to healthcare. Thrilled that we were now playing in the same sandbox, a few years ago I found myself pitching her stories for the Times: Will we still need smart doctors in the Age of Watson? How are older and younger physicians adapting to digital healthcare? Medical scribes? Really?
Clearly, I was becoming intrigued by how computers were changing the world of healthcare. But I’m not a techie; 18 months ago, I couldn’t have told you the difference ...
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