{"id":29584,"date":"2015-08-03T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2015\/08\/03\/information-sessions-focus-on-two-top-ihealth-programs-at-necc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:17:23","slug":"information-sessions-focus-on-two-top-ihealth-programs-at-necc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/08\/03\/information-sessions-focus-on-two-top-ihealth-programs-at-necc\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Sessions Focus on Two Top iHealth Programs  at NECC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11790\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/08\/Allison-Andrukaitis-of-Andover-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11790\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11790\" alt=\"Allison Andrukaitis of Andover will be stepping into a medical lab tech position when she completes the program this summer.\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/08\/Allison-Andrukaitis-of-Andover-newsroom-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison Andrukaitis of Andover will be stepping into a medical lab tech position when she completes the program this summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two iHealth@NECC associate degree programs, Health Information Technology and Medical Laboratory Technology, both of which are designed to move individuals from the classroom into high demand careers, will be highlighted during information sessions on Tuesday, August 11, at 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, August 25, at 10 a.m. in the Northern Essex Community College iHealth building 52 Franklin St., Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and staff will be available to discuss the Health Information Technology and Medical Laboratory Technology programs as well as all iHealth programs offered through iHealth@NECC.<\/p>\n<p>Health information technology, one of iHealth\u2019s newer programs, trains individuals to be guardians of patients\u2019 health care records. The records, also known as health informatics, are valuable, private documents that chronicle a patient\u2019s medical history. At NECC,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/ihealth\/2014\/12\/03\/health-information-technology-associate-degree\/\">Health Information Technology<\/a>\u00a0students learn how to properly acquire, store, and retrieve, this healthcare information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/ihealth\/2014\/12\/03\/medical-laboratory-technology-associate-degree\/\">Medical Laboratory Technology<\/a> is another popular program. Medical lab technicians perform and report laboratory testing and work in hospitals, physician\u2019s offices, and clinical laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding and delivering programs that meet community and student needs is what we are about at NECC,\u201d says NECC Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Bill Heineman.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information on these two programs or all iHealth@NECC programs, contact Linda Comeau at 978-738-7408.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two iHealth@NECC associate degree programs, Health Information Technology and Medical Laboratory Technology, both of which are designed to move individuals from the classroom into high demand careers, will be highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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