Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications

by Kathleen A. McCormick, Brian Gugerty

Overview

The Complete Healthcare Information Technology Reference and Exam Guide

Gain the skills and knowledge required to implement and support healthcare IT (HIT) systems in various clinical and healthcare business settings. Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications prepares IT professionals to transition into HIT with coverage of topics ranging from health data standards to project management.

This valuable resource also serves as a study tool for the CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician exam (Exam HIT-001) and for any of the six Healthcare Information Technology Professional (HIT Pro) exams offered by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. You’ll get complete coverage of all official objectives for these challenging exams. Chapter summaries highlight what you’ve learned and chapter review questions test your knowledge of specific topics.

Coverage includes:

• Healthcare Organizational Behavior
• Healthcare Regulatory Requirements
• Healthcare Business Operations
• Healthcare IT Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality
• Healthcare IT Operations

Electronic content includes:
Complete MasterExam practice testing engine, featuring seven practice exams, one for each exam:

• CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician
• HIT Pro Clinician/Practitioner Consultant
• HIT Pro Implementation Manager
• HIT Pro Implementation Support Specialist
• HIT Pro Practice Workflow & Information Management Redesign Specialist
• HIT Pro Technical/Software Support Staff
• HIT Pro Trainer

Plus:

• Detailed answers with explanations
• Score Report performance assessment tool

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071802796
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	39 MB
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About the Author

Kathleen McCormick, PhD, is a senior practitioner, researcher, and policy executive in health informatics and bioinformatics. She spent 13 years as an informatics scientist and clinical trial researcher within the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging and Clinical Center. In 2009 Dr. McCormick joined SAIC-F as Senior Principal Scientist/Vice President. Honored with fellowships in nursing, informatics, and gerontology, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine and received the President's Award from the American Medical Informatics Association of America in 1998. Dr. McCormick is the coauthor of Essentials in Nursing Informatics and author of several other books.

Brian Gugerty DNS, RN, has been involved in clinical informatics for more than 20 years. His experience includes academics, clinical informatics, software development, and counseling healthcare providers in Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation planning, activation, and optimization. Brian has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles and book chapters on the theory, practice, and the future of clinical informatics. He has been a frequent presenter of the theory and practice of EHRs by exploring a wide range of subjects for institutions both in the USA and abroad.

Table of Contents

Section I: Healthcare Organizational Behavior

Section II: Healthcare Regulatory Requirements

Section III: Healthcare Business Operations

Section IV: Security, Privacy, Confidentiality in Healthcare

Section V: Healthcare IT Operations