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By Arielle Levin Becker © The Connecticut Mirror This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org , the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent, nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy. HARTFORD — Julie Michaelson has spent five years working on her hospital’s information technology system, but she says it would be a misconception to think she’s computer- savvy. Mary McAward worked for years in data processing before being laid off, and is hoping the coming wave of health information technology will mean a new career path for her. Both are taking federally funded courses at Capital Community College, part of a national effort to educate more than 10,500 people in the electronic systems that, after years of discussion, are poised to become commonplace in medicine. That means jobs, to build, install and maintain the systems. The federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has estimated that