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

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.

Part I: Healthcare Organizational Behavior
Chapter 1: An Overview of Healthcare in the United States
Chapter 2: An Overview of How Healthcare is Paid for in the United States
Chapter 3: Ethics and Healthcare: Focus on Information Technology
Chapter 4: The Role of Information Technology in Healthcare
Chapter 5: An Overview of Processes Associated with Healthcare Delivery Within Provider Organizations: Focus on the Ambulatory Setting

Chapter 6: An Overview of Processes Associated with Healthcare Payment Within Ambulatory Provider Organizations

Chapter 7: Using Healthcare IT to Measure and Improve Outcomes

Chapter 8: The Role of Healthcare IT in Improving Population Health

Chapter 9: Strategic Leadership and Management of Health Information Technology in Provider Organizations

Chapter 10: Communication Skills in Healthcare IT, Building Strong Teams for Successful Healthcare IT Outcomes

Part II: Healthcare Regulatory Requirements

Chapter 11: Healthcare Information Technology and Healthcare Policy

Chapter 12: Navigating Health Data Standards and Interoperability

Chapter 13: Regulatory Aspects of Healthcare IT: Legal Best Practices and Requirements

Chapter 14: The Electronic Health Record as Evidence

Part III: Healthcare Business Operations

Chapter 15: Core HIT Functionality

Chapter 16: Human Factors in Healthcare IT

Chapter 17: Build- and Implementation-Related HIT Success Factors

Chapter 18: HIT Connectivity and Interoperability Opportunities and Challenges

Chapter 19: Fundamentals of Clinical Decision Support

Chapter 20: Organizational Success Factors in Healthcare Informatics Implementation

Chapter 21: Fundamentals of Health Workflow Process Analysis and Redesign

Chapter 22: Reporting Requirements and Regulatory and External Factors Affecting Healthcare IT

Chapter 23: Training Essentials for Implementing Healthcare IT

Part IV: Healthcare IT Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality

Chapter 24: Building Trust

Chapter 25: Risk Assessment and Management

Chapter 26: Physical Safeguards, Facility Security, Secure Systems and Networks, and Securing Electronic Media

Chapter 27: Healthcare Information Security: Operational Safeguards

Chapter 28: Unique Operational Safeguards in an Electronic Health Record and a Healthcare Information Exchange

Chapter 29: Architectural Safeguards

Chapter 30: Healthcare Cybersecurity Technology

Chapter 31: Certification of HIT Products and Systems

Part V: Healthcare IT Operations

Chapter 32: Computer Hardware and Architecture for Healthcare IT

Chapter 33: Programming and Programming Languages for Healthcare IT

Chapter 34: Databases, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining for Healthcare

Chapter 35: Networks and Networking in Healthcare

Chapter 36: Systems Analysis and Design in Healthcare

Chapter 37: Healthcare Information Technology Project Management

Part VI: Appendices

Appendix A: CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician Exam Objective Map

Appendix B: HIT Pro Exams Objective Maps

Appendix C: About the CD-ROM