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Every day I experience life in the world of healthcare IT, supporting 3000 doctors, 18000 faculty, and 3 million patients. In this blog I record my experiences with infrastructure, applications, policies, management, and governance as well as muse on such topics such as reducing our carbon footprint, standardizing data in healthcare, and living life to its fullest. 2018 was a very busy year, requiring extensive international travel—I racked up more than 400,000 miles this fall.   But now that my schedule is a bit more manageable, I plan to start posting again to “Life as a Healthcare CIO”. In addition to my travels to China, Japan, Australia and a long list of other countries, I managed to find the time to work with my esteemed co-author Paul Cerrato on We wanted to share the Preface with readers and have included it below, along with a link to Elsevier’s web site for those interested Words are powerful tools, weapons even. They can persuade skeptics, overcome bigotry, injure colleagues, disrupt the status quo, ruin reputations, shatter misconceptions, deceive the uninformed, endear us to loved ones, comfort the grief stricken. The list is almost endless. The three words that are most relevant to our discussion of mobile medicine—cynicism, optimism, and transformation—are no less Many stakeholders in healthcare have become cynical about the value of information technology in improving patient care, some of which is justified. Clinicians have valid concerns about the ability of the current crop of electronic health record systems to deliver cost effective care. Others doubt whether patient-facing mobile apps can effectively engage patients in their own care or lighten the load of practitioners already burdened with too many responsibilities. And many grouse about the seemingly endless list of IT-dependent government regulations that slow them down. But for many, cynicism has become more than just a reaction to legitimate concerns. It’s become a national religion, coloring their view of emerging innovations and potentially transformative