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 2022/01/25
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.