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

Dr. Kathleen A. McCormick and Dr. Brian Gugerty
ISBN: 9780071802802 / 0071802800


Table of Contents

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