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Comptia Healthcare It+ Technician

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1. An independent medical practice opened by one or more accredited medical practitioners of any specialty area in an office environment.






2. A password that meets the complexity requirements that are set by a system administrator and documented in a password policy.






3. A residential facility 'steps' of care based on the residents' needs:Residents can start out with more Independence though assisted living - with the comfort of knowing nursing home care is available at the same facility when they can no longer remai






4. Records that are not for public consumption and require appropriate release before they can be shared.






5. 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






6. Private and non-government businesses that contract with individual or employments to help pay medical expenses. These insurers also have seperate contracts with many health organization that specify negotiated rate structures for that health organiz






7. A software or hardware device that protects a system or network by blocking unwanted network traffic.






8. An area where surgical procedures are performer in a sterile environment.






9. Software systems solutions developed using specific industry standards and rules that allow all the myriad medical systems to communicate as seamlessly as possible with one another.






10. Data that is added to a patient EMR to allow for quick searching and file location.






11. A method used to remove data from magnetic media. Degaussing changes the magnetic alignment of data - so that it cannot be recovered






12. A U.S. federal agency responsible not only for overseeing its named services but also for administering a children's insurance program - some portions of HIPAA - and other programs.






13. A type of cable in which one or more glass or plastic strands - plus additional fiber strands or wraps - are surrounded by a protective oyster jacket. Light pulses carry the signal though fiber optic cable.






14. Any healthcare provider that conducts certain transactions in electronic form - a healthcare clearinghouse or a health plan. All covered entities fall under the HHS Administrative Simplification standards adopted as port of HIPAA. All covered entitie






15. Software that provides one location where charges are entered codes can be checked - insurance claims and statements can be generated and sent - claim denials can be managed and payments can be posted and processed.






16. The official ANSI term for IDE drives.






17. Uninterruptible Power Supply - A battery back up device that is intended to save computer components from damage due to power problems such as power failures - spikes - and sags.






18. A personal computer storage device that stores data magnetically on a removable tape.






19. A checks-and-balances systems that ensures that a patient is receiving the correct medication - the correct dose of medication at the correct time - from an authorize caregiver by requiring that bar codes storing information about the patient medicat






20. A type of network that is established spontaneously through a peer-to-peer wireless connection.






21. 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.






22. A class of technology separates computing software from the hardware it runs via an additional software layer - allowing multiple operating systems to run on one computer simultaneously.






23. A network that connects wireless devices in a very close proximity but not though a wireless access point.






24. A device used often to scan patient's driver licenses or insurance card to store withing the EMR/EHR system.






25. A wired or wireless device that is used to scan and identify patients using the unique barcode located on their ID wrist band.






26. A device that connects multiple network that use the same protocol.






27. A backup that backs up all selected files regardless of the state of the archived bit.






28. A high-speed serial bus developed by Apple and Texas Instruments that allows for the connection of up to 63 devices. Originally a trademarked term for IEEE 1394 - but is now used interchangeably.






29. A healthcare facility that performs surgical procedures that does not require hospitalization. Surgeries are usually outpatient - meaning the surgery performed dos not require stay for recovery.






30. The ability to connect to systems and services from an offsite or remote location using a remote access method.






31. 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.






32. Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-clinical Terms - An organized collection of numeric codes correlating to clinical information such as diseases - procedures - microorganisms - medications - and so forth that may be used in a patient's records.






33. A protocol that provides VPN functionality.






34. An IT role that is responsible for ensuring that an organization's security policies are being followed by employees and that sufficient controls are in place to prevent unauthorized access to systems and facilities -






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






36. Term used to communicate that a patient has gone into cardiac arrest - and immediate medical attention/ rapid response is needed to resuscitation the patient.






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






38. A protocol that uses the HTTP over SSL protocol and encapsulates an IP packet wit a PPP header and then with an SSTP header.






39. Classification for a drug or substance that has a high potential for abuse; is currently accepted for medical use in treatment in the United States; and abuse of which may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.






40. A server that is primarily used to share - store - and access files.






41. A piece of software created to fix problems with or provide updates to a program or application. This may include fixing known vulnerabilities or bugs - or improving functionality or performance.






42. A department within a medical organization dedicated to handling ROI requests for EMR/EHR information release.






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






44. An analysis technique that determines the coverage area of a wireless network - identifies any sources of interference - and establishes other characteristics of the coverage area.






45. Service-level Agreement - a contractual agreement between a service provider and a customer that stipulates the precise services and support options the vendor must provide.






46. The act of searching for instances of wireless LAN while in motion - using wireless tracking devices like mobile phones - smartphones - tablets - or laptops.






47. Unauthorized software introduced on multiple computers to manipulate the computers into mounting a DDoS attack. Also called a drone.






48. A server-side programming language used to develop dynamic web pages by embedding its coded into an HTML pages.






49. A healthcare record standard - similar to CCR but more robust as it was developed by both the HL7 and American Society for Testings and Materials.






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






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