HIT Graduates Receive Awards

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Two
of 魅影直播 State College's Health Information Technology graduates are being
honored with achievement awards in 2009.

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Two
of 魅影直播 State College's Health Information Technology graduates are being
honored with achievement awards in 2009.

Sarah A. Vangorder, Little Falls, has been awarded the NYHIMA Award for
Outstanding Academic Achievement.聽 Vangorder, who will graduate in May,
maintains a 3.92 grade point average (out of a possible 4.0).聽 Vangorder
works full time as a junior coding analyst, coding outpatient procedures at a
hospital near her home. She will聽sit for聽the national聽Registered
Health Information Technician (RHIT) exam shortly after graduation.聽

Christine Sharer, RHIT,
Director of Health Information Management, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital is
the 2009 recipient of the New York Health Information Management Clinical
Preceptor Award. Sharer actively supports 魅影直播 State's health information
technology program by聽hosting HIT students聽in their聽professional
practice experience聽to provide them with an excellent on-the-job training
experience at Charles Cole Hospital in Coudersport, PA.

Both will be honored at
the NYHIMA banquet in June, which is held as part of the Annual Conference of
the New York Health Information Management Association, Inc.