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Comptia Healthcare It+ Technician

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1. A LAN implementation in which nodes use a wireless network card to connect to other stations.






2. A network that displays characteristics of more than one of the three standard network models.






3. An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST's mission us to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science - standards - and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of






4. A hospital that treats a wide variety of medical issues including emergencies and inpatient/outpatient care - and performs general surgeries.






5. Peer-to-peer - A network that has a broadcasting application architecture that distributes tasks between peer systems who have equal privileges - and in which resources sharing - processing - and communication controls are decentralized.






6. Pronounced 'I-triple-E.' An organization of scientists - engineers - and student of electronics and related fiends whose technical and standards committees develop - publish and revise computing and telecommunications standards.






7. Software that allows staff to track a patient's flow of care in the system from registration thought treatment - and during and after discharge.






8. An invitation for vendors to submit a plan and bid for the delivery of a product or service.






9. Systems that store networking hardware and provide networking services to local area networks within a medical environment.






10. Specific healthcare industry standards and a framework concerning the exchange and integration of patient's electronic information between software systems - which are adhered to by vendors developing interfaces - ensuring that of this disparate soft






11. The intermediary between the medical biller at the healthcare organization and the paying insurance company who ensures that the claim has no errors before it is transmitted to the insurance company.






12. A Specialized file server that is designed and dedicated to support only data storage needs.






13. Unwanted software loaded onto a system for the purposes of presenting commercial advertisements to the user.






14. Implemented security measures that restrict - detect - and monitor access to specific physical areas or assets.






15. Disturbances caused by electromagnetic radiation emitted from any external source - which may interrupt - obstruct - degrade - or limit the performance of an electrical circuit.






16. The standard language that defines how web pages are formatted and displayed.






17. A list of all NDC identification numbers - compiled and published by the Food and Drug Administration.






18. The method used to repeatedly delete and overwrite any traces or bits of sensitive data that may remain on a device after data wiping has been done.






19. The acuteness - or level of severity - of an illness or disease.






20. A private network that is configured within a public network such as the Internet.






21. A device that has multiple network ports and combines multiple physical network segments into a single logical network.






22. The mechanism by which individual hardware MAC addresses are matched to an IP address on a network.






23. A widely adopted markup language used in many documents - websites - and web applications.






24. The official ANSI term for IDE drives.






25. An all-encompassing solution of many other IT-based pieces that streamlines the workflow processes of all activities needed to run a practice or facility while providing the ability to becomes a paperless office - including patient tracking - medical






26. U.S. economic stimulus legislation; provisions include funding of some healthcare initiatives and the creation of the HITECH Act.






27. A process in which information is transcribed into an unreadable form by anyone who does not have the encryption key.






28. A regulatory concept describing the ideal of effectively and efficiently leveraging EHR technology in the medical workplace.






29. Any method of securing you wireless LAN network to prevent unauthorized network access and network data theft while ensuring that authorized users can connect to the network.






30. A personal computer storage device that uses fixed media and magnetic data storage.






31. A type of social engineering attack where a request for a website - typicality an e-commerce site - is redirected to a similar looking - but fake - website.






32. A powerful - centralized computer system that performs data storage and processing tasks on behalf of clients and other network devices.






33. A system that extinguishes fire using special gases.






34. A federal health insurance program for the elderly and some disable individuals in the United States - with three main parts: Part A for inpatient - Part B for outpatient - and prescriptions drug coverage.






35. Using symbols to mark off a sidewalk or wall to indicate that there is an open wireless networking which may be offering Internet access.






36. A utility used to determine the route data takes to get to a particular destination.






37. A trauma center that can provide the highest possible level of surgical care to trauma patients - with a full range of specialists and technology available 24 hours a day. It is required to have an ongoing research program and trauma education/ preve






38. A sample of code that spreads from one computer to another by attacking itself to other files. The code in a virus corrupts and erases files on a user's computer - including executable files - when the files to which it was attached is opened or exec






39. Universal Serial Bus - A hardware interface standard designed to provide connections for numerous peripherals.






40. A service added to the IP protocol that attempts to report on the condition of a connection between two nodes.






41. A common type of email-based social engineering attack where the attacker sends an email that seems to come form a respected bank or financial institution.






42. A device that provides network connectivity capabilities for computer systems.






43. The role - department - or individual that is formally responsible for a health record.






44. A method used to securely remove data from hard drives and other electronic storage devices.






45. Classification for a drug or substance that has low potential for abuse as compared those in categorized in Schedule III; is currently accepted for medical use in treatment in the United States; and abuse of which may lead to limited to physical or p






46. A server that displays web pages to clients.






47. Unwanted software that collects personal user data from a system and transmits it to a third party.






48. An independent - non-regulatory - not-for-profit organization that provides accreditation and certification for healthcare organizations in the United States.






49. A unique 10-digit - three segment numeric code assigned to each registered drug manufactured - processed - and distributed by registered drug manufacturers.






50. A team of clinicians assigned to work with a specific patient at any given time.