CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician

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Overview

The CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician certification covers the knowledge and skills required to implement, deploy, and support healthcare IT systems in various clinical settings.

The CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician certification exam covers:

• Regulatory requirements
• Organizational behavior
• IT operations
• Medical business operations
• Security

Course Objective

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• define and describe concepts and terminology that are fundamental to your understanding of the use of IT in a healthcare environment.
• describe the medical environment including its organization, stakeholders, and the most significant technologies.
• leverage core medical concepts to describe the use of IT in the medical workplace.
• describe the essential elements of computing including hardware, software, networking, and change control.
• provide IT support and solve IT problems in the medical workplace.
• integrate security best practices into your daily healthcare IT workflow.

Target Student

The typical student for this course is an experienced IT professional in a role such as desktop support technician, network administrator, systems administrator, or database administrator, who is looking for opportunities within the healthcare industry or may already be working within the healthcare industry. Such students want to prove through certification that they have the knowledge and skills required to implement, deploy, and support healthcare IT systems.

Prerequisites

While there are no strict prerequisites, CompTIA intends the Healthcare IT Technician certificate to serve as an add-on to the CompTIA® A+® certification.

Students should have experience and comfort with the following concepts and tasks:

• Computer and networking terminology.
• The functional components of a computer and a network (both wired and wireless).
• Installing and troubleshooting Microsoft® Windows®XP and Windows® 7.
• Installing and troubleshooting software, hardware, and networking components.
• Working with computer peripherals.
• Setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting mobile devices.
• Computer and network security best practices.

Certification Exams

CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician

Duration

3 days

Contact Information

E-mail Heith Hart or call (443) 692-6599 if you have any questions about this course or if you would like to be added to the interest list.