RT Book, Section A1 Harris, C. Martin A1 Lazuta, Gene SR Print(0) ID 1150333676 T1 The Internet of Healthcare T2 It's About Patient Care: Transforming Healthcare Information Technology the Cleveland Clinic Way YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259642937 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1150333676 RD 2021/04/19 AB The word technology, particularly in its contemporary sense, is fairly new. Generally thought to have first been used in the mid-1800s, it comes from the Greek technologia, which means the "systematic treatment of an art."1 In its early English usage, it only referred to the applied arts (the process of decorating otherwise plainly rendered utilitarian objects),2 but its definition gradually changed over time to include a growing range of ideas that all center on tools and machines. Eventually, the concept settled into what we might consider its familiar modern meaning, a "means or activity by which man seeks to change or manipulate his environment."3 We could probably strip this definition down even further. As we use the word today, technology basically means a gadget; and that's the beginning of our problem because, so defined, the term loses at least half of its original sense—and the half it loses, the "systematic" part, is really important.