HLST 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Informatics, Xara
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The first class was very interesting because i wasn"t expecting to involve computer concepts such as gigabytes, coding files and math with health. Although this class is named health informatics, my interpretation of this was understanding health through databases and not actually considering all the steps that it takes for us to receive the information we want to get. I slightly enjoyed the first class because there was a little bit of math which i believe i do decently well in. However, i did take a computer science course in high school which i disliked the most because i had a hard time understanding all the terms and concepts. I know this course won"t completely focus on computer science but i think i"ll have an easier time because we"re taking about technology and health. The second class was getting a bit easier as i was able to understand what professor el.