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Book Description
This study guide helps you master all the topics on the new Healthcare IT Technician HIT-001 exam, including
- Healthcare IT roles and trends
- Standards agencies, laws, and regulations
- HIPAA controls and compliance
- Record retention, disposal, and archiving
- Comprehensive coverage of health IT security
- EHR/EMR access roles and responsibilities
- Setup and troubleshooting for EHR/EMR PCs, servers, and networks
- Legal best practices, requirements, and documentation
Companion CD
Your purchase includes access to two complete, free practice exams available online for download and anytime/anywhere use.
Includes Exclusive Offer for 70% Off Premium Edition eBook and Additional Practice Test
In this best-of-breed study guide, two leading experts bring together all the knowledge, preparation hints, and test-taking tips you’ll need to succeed on your CompTIA HIT-001 exam, and transition into a successful Healthcare IT career. Their concise, focused approach explains each exam objective from a practical, real-world perspective, helping you quickly identify weaknesses, strengthen conceptual understanding and hands-on skills, and retain everything you’ll need to know.
Every feature of this book is designed to support both efficient exam preparation and long-term mastery:
- Opening Topics Lists define the topics you’ll need to learn in each chapter, with numbering linked directly to official exam objectives
- Concise Tables and Figures bring together knowledge in an easy-to-use format
- Exam Tips call attention to the information that’s most crucial to know for the exam
- Notes provide deeper context and links to additional information
- Key Terms definitions and a complete glossary explain all of the field’s essential terminology
- HIT in the Real World stories link concepts to real HIT work environments
- Chapter Summaries help you quickly review every key topic
- Acronym Drills reinforce learning of important acronyms
- Review Quizzes help you gauge your knowledge; all answers are provided and explained at the end of the book
- Practical Application critical thinking questions deepen your understanding
The companion CD contains the powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test Engine, complete with access to a large library of exam-realistic questions. This state-of-the-art assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features to help you study more efficiently! Use step-by-step Study Mode or run a powerful simulation that mimics actual exam conditions. Whenever you want, get a complete assessment of your current knowledge, so you can focus scarce study time where you need it most!
About The Author
Joy Dark has worked in the healthcare IT field in several capacities. She first worked as a help desk technician providing first-level support at a company that supports more than 130 hospitals in 29 states. Later she focused on providing second-level support for clinical information systems, specializing in perioperative information systems and the emergency department information systems. Next she switched gears to become a support operations specialist, helping to design support protocols and structures as well as managing the transition of support when hospitals converted information systems. Now she has authored the CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician HIT-001 Cert Guide and contributes in writing other technical books. Before healthcare IT, Joy was an elementary school teacher in both the United States and in South America. She lives in Dalton, Georgia, with her sister and Doberman dog. She has two sisters who are physicians (anesthesiology and emergency medicine) who have shared plenty of stories, facts, and opinions about the healthcare environment that have helped to shape the content in this book.
Jean Andrews, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry, including more than 13 years in the college classroom. She has worked in a wide variety of businesses and corporations designing, writing, and supporting applications software; managing a PC repair help desk; and troubleshooting wide area networks. She has written a variety of books on software, hardware, and the Internet. She lives in northeast Georgia.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Que; 1 edition (July 5, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0789749297
- ISBN-13: 978-0789749291
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.1 x 9.1 inches
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