[PyHealthcare] Introduction

[Federico Caboni]

Welcome, Nick, and thanks for sharing your professional story.

I'm very glad you liked my presentation and found it useful, especially if it persuaded you
to join the list and collaborate!

-- Federico 


Il giorno 08/ago/2011, alle ore 14:17, Nick Lo ha scritto:

> Hello all, My name is Nick Lo and having read the other introductions
> I feel like I'm very underqualified to be part of this group. It was
> Frederico Caboni's presentation on the use of Python in Healthcare at
> Europython 2011 that brought the group to my attention. While watching
> that presentation I realised that not only did I find it one of the
> most interesting presentations of the many I watched, but also that it
> was one of the more relevant ones to the work that I am now involved
> in.
> 
> For the past 4.5 years one of my main clients has been the Institute
> for Health and Social Science Research at CQUniversity, Australia
> where I've been working on various web application projects dealing
> with, for example, outpatient rehabilitation for diabetes,
> cardiovascular disease. Oddly it was watching Frederico's presentation
> that made me realise how familiar I have become with healthcare, not
> only through client work but through personal interest.
> 
> As for my being underqualified I think a lot is due to my own history
> coming via design rather than the sciences. I've been working since
> 2000 in web-development using PHP and in that time co-authored "Zend
> Framework in Action". I started using Django and Python to speed up
> development of the Uni projects and now see Python as my "go to"
> language while still maintaining a few PHP based projects out of
> necessity.
> 
> My interest in this group is hopefully to get a sense of what I do and
> don't know about the healthcare IT industry and what directions I
> could take the work we do in.
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