MSA Student Wins Best Student Poster Award

MSA StudentMengyuan Fang Farley, an MSA student at ECU and graduate assistant at the Center for Healthcare Management Systems, won the Best Student Poster award at the 2014 North Carolina Health Informatics Career and Internship Fair/Symposium. The event was held on Oct. 24th at the East Carolina University Heart Institute to discuss the latest research trends and developments in health industries along with job opportunities.

Twenty posters from five North Carolina universities (including Duke University, East Carolina University, North Carolina Central University, UNC–Chapel Hill, and N.C. State University) and healthcare organizations such as Vidant were selected for the final presentation at the Fair/Symposium.

Farley’s poster title was “Effects and Sustainability of Healthcare Information Exchange.” Her project was conducted under the guidance of Drs. Yajiong (Lucky) Xue and Huigang Liang.