CompTIA Healthcare IT

Explore how data flows between hospital information systems and how support flow shifts with facility size, from vendor help in small systems to health information exchanges.

Explore how the perioperative information system coordinates preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative data via the interface engine. Track identity from temporary to permanent accounts, ADT messaging, and cold feed to EMR.

Explain how the emergency department information system works with HIS to assign order numbers, route orders to pharmacy, lab, or radiology, and return results and charges via the interface engine.

Explore major regulations and pieces of legislation shaping the U.S. health care industry. Learn how regulatory requirements impact health care operations and compliance in this module.

Discover the operating divisions of health and human services and how CMS, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and the Office for Civil Rights influence health care.

Discover how CMS regulates billing code standards under HIPAA 5010, and how ICD-10 replaces ICD-9 to support more detailed codes and about 55,000 additional entries.

Explore Medicare and Medicaid programs, their federal administration and 1965 Social Security Act origins, and the concept of electronic protected health information (e-PHI) under HIPAA, including privacy enforcement.

HIPAA sets privacy and security standards to protect health information and enforces breach notifications with penalties. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds incentives for meaningful use of EMR/EHR under HITECH.

Protect patient data by implementing HIPAA-aligned physical and technical safeguards, giving PHI access on a need-to-know basis, and following ten practices like strong passwords, antivirus, firewalls, access controls, and backups.

Explore the hospital's governance from the board of directors to the CEO and VPs, overseeing patient care services, risk management, quality review, social services, finance, marketing, development, and provider contracts.

Enter patient rooms with permission, knock, announce yourself, and wait for a reply. Verbally explain your purpose, follow established protocols, and be mindful of sensitive conditions to avoid insensitivity.

Explore information technology principles essential for healthcare IT operations, building a strong grasp of IT concepts to operate successfully in healthcare environments.

Explore Wi-Fi standards used in health care facilities, including the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, access points, and typical speeds and ranges across 802.11 variants.

Learn essential network tools for troubleshooting, including ipconfig, ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew, ping, and traceroute. Identify issues like duplicate IPs, broken cables, crosstalk, and wireless interference that affect connectivity.

Learn to use ipconfig and ping to diagnose connectivity, view ip configuration, dhcp details, and dns servers, and configure ipv4 settings from manual ip to dhcp on the ethernet adapter.

Learn hospital business operations, medical terms, imaging and tests, and how to translate between medical and IT terminology for healthcare IT professionals pursuing CompTIA Health Care IT certification.

Explore essential medical imaging terms and testing methods, including portable x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and PET imaging. Understand glucose monitoring, EEG and ECG, and vascular and nuclear stress tests.

Navigate inpatient hospital departments, including obstetrics and gynecology, labor and delivery, postpartum, neonatal intensive care unit, pediatrics, oncology, intensive care unit, transitional care unit, medical-surgical nursing, and the operating room.

Learn how systems exchange health data via HL seven messages, using continuity of care documents and interface engines to monitor bi-directional threads and segment structures (fields and subfields).

Learn secure communication practices for healthcare IT, including encrypting email, avoiding unencrypted chat, using secure EHR messaging, intranet collaboration sites, secure FTP, and smartphone and fax security.

Protect data privacy on storage by encrypting where needed, while keeping access fast and avoiding encryption choices that degrade performance or waste space.

Compare WEP, WPA, and WPA2, emphasizing AES and FIPS compliance for healthcare wireless security, with RADIUS authentication and site surveys to detect rogue apps.

Compare remote access options, including remote desktop connections, a VPN, third-party remote control apps, terminal emulation, and L2TPv3 with IPsec, plus secure protocols like SSH, HTTPS, and Secure FTP.

Ensure hipaa compliant phi disposal as a covered entity; shred physical documents, purge or degauss storage devices, and sanitize by deleting data and reformatting the drive.