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Comptia Healthcare It+ Technician

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1. An Instant messaging service that uses strong encryption to send and receive secure messages.






2. An investor-owned hospital - usually owned by a corporation or group of private individuals - that aims to gain profits for the services provided which are then paid to those invested in the ownership.






3. A standard that adds AES security to the 802.11 standard






4. Five-digit CPT codes used to describe a medical professional-patient interaction - such as an office visit or a hospital - to facilitate in the billing process.






5. A network attack in which an attacker disables systems that provide network services by consuming a networks link's available bandwidth - consuming a single system's available resources - or exploiting programming flaws in an application or operation






6. 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






7. The process is assigning a universally recognized and used medical code number to a specific medical diagnosis or procedure.






8. 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






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






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






11. A facility equipped to treat patients suffering traumatic injuries.






12. 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






13. A Windows Server computer that runs the Active Directory service. Directory information is automatically replicated between the DC's






14. 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.






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






16. Application code that enables various applications to communicate with each other.






17. The use of various technologies to create images of the human body for use in the clinical field - such as diagnosis - treatment - and tracking of a disease or medical issue within the body.






18. A hospital owned and operated by a federal - state or city government. Typically provides subsidized medical services to patients unable to pay for medical services.






19. A TCP/IP utility used to verity the network connectivity of a computer.






20. The service that maps names to IP addresses on most TCP/IP networks - including the Internet.






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






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






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






24. The automatic process for checking a prescription for medication against a patents's known allergies for possible drug-allergy reactions - and against current medications for possible adverse drug-drug interactions.






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






26. A hospital specialized to treat a specific disease or condition or a specific type of patient.






27. A residential facility for individuals with persistent medical conditions who are currently unable to live independently - but do not need constant medical care or supervision.






28. A trauma center that can provide initial evaluation stabilization - and diagnosis of a trauma patient - but then the patient must be transferred to a Level I - II - or III facility for treatment and care. It is required to provide services 24 hours a






29. A U.S. law that established rules for the governance of health information privacy - security - breach notification administrative simplification - and enforcement.






30. A server that displays web pages to clients.






31. The U.S. Agency charged with protecting the health of the population and providing various human services.






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






33. A type of attack where the goal is to obtain sensitive data including user names and passwords - from network users though deception and trickery.






34. A security protocol created by the IEEE task group to replace WEP.






35. A company that provides access to the Internet.






36. Any message containing incorrect or misleading information that is disseminated to multiple users though unofficial channels.






37. A senior - skilled medical staff member who serves as an instructor or supervisor - providing experience and feedback - to medical students or newly hired employees still in training.






38. A residential facility or community for patients who may need assistance with some functions of daily living - such as bathing or medication reminders - but can otherwise remain mostly independent.






39. A security setting that determines the level of access a user or group account has to be particular resource.






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






41. A hospital owned by a not-for-profit organization - religious organization - or government organization. Profits do not go to individual investors - but reinvested back into hospital or community.






42. 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.






43. The procedures - processes - or actions - as defined by state and national licensing boards - that are permitted for an individual in a particular licensing area - usually driven by criteria such as specific education and experience requirements.






44. The federal agency that oversees the regulation of food safety - tobacco products - prescription and over-the-counter medication - dietary supplements - vaccines - medical devices - sanitation requirements - and other related public health products a






45. A protocol used to connect to and access a remote computer.






46. A device used to convert paper to electronic format and then associates the file with the proper patient.






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






48. Treatment provided when a patient's medical condition reqires being admitted a healthcare facility for anywhere from an overnight stay to a long-term sstay - due to the fact that the patient's condition must be closely monitored.






49. 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






50. Classification for a drug or substance that has a lower potential for abuse as compared to those categorized in schedule IV; is currently accepted for medical use in treatment in the United States; and abuse of which may lead to limited to physical o