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CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician Exam HIT-001
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CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician Exam HIT-001
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1. A electronic patient database has reached end-of-life according to the policies of your healthcare facility, and it has been tagged for destruction to keep patient data confidential. Which method of destruction is NOT appropriate for this data?
2. Which of the following should a user avoid while creating strong passwords for users?
3. Which of the following pieces of legislation preserves the patient's wishes, rights, healthcare options and advanced directives even if the decision results in the death of the patient?
4. Your customer wants to make sure that only computers he has authorized can get on his Wi-Fi. What is the most appropriate security measure you can recommend?
5. Which of the following types of hospital information systems are designed to share information among all departments included in a large health system?
6. Which of the following is a project management tool that is characterized by circles connected by lines to indicate the sequence of event?
7. Your primary duty is to transmit protected health information electronically from your facility to a central database. You are performing this duty based on the regulation set forth by which of the following governing bodies?
8. A healthcare organization hires you to provide consultancy for setting up its Windows network. The company's server room will be in a highly secured environment. You are required to suggest an authentication method for it. The CFO of the company wants the server to use thumb impressions for authentication. Which of the following authentication methods will you suggest?
9. A patient has had a two month extended stay in the hospital. Over that period of time, her chart has become too large and cumbersome to handle. You are asked to make this chart easier to work with. Which of the following tasks have you been asked to perform?
10. John, a trainee, wants to know in detail about the IPCONFIG command on a Windows XP Professional computer. Which of the following commands should he use to display the help message of the IPCONFIG command?
11. You are a healthcare IT technician. You have made a procedure of backup according to the backup policy of the company. Which of the following actions will prove that the backup is reliable and useable?
12. You need a patient's medical information for a research project. Which type of medical information can you obtain without consent from the patient?
13. According to HIPAA, how long must a medical practice retain a patient's medical records?
14. Which of the following refers to a database that contains a unique index for every patient registered at a health care organization?
15. Which of the following pieces of legislation encompasses the eight rights every individual has as a recipient of medical care?
16. A member of your family is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and is unable to care for themselves at home. To which of the following healthcare facilities would you contact for long term care of this individual?
17. Which of the following network topologies is the most fault tolerant?
18. While working at a private physician practice, a new patient is coming for an initial visit. You are asked to obtain medical records from every healthcare facility this patient has ever sought care. Which of the following types of medical records have you been asked to compile?
19. Your primary duty as a healthcare information technologist is to design and implement an information system to be shared by many health organizations to report information required by regulatory agencies. Which of the following types of information systems are you responsible for implementing?
20. Your responsibility as a health care information technologist is to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of all drug prescriptions, laboratory tests and medical procedures. Which of the following types of information technology are you responsible for?
21. A patient comes into the hospital with pain in her chest and the physician wants to determine if there are abnormalities in the electrical impulses of her heart that could indicate damage. What medical device measures the electrical signal of the heart and often prints it out in a waves format?
22. You are asked to reduce medical records for a dental practice, you can eliminate all records that are older than which of the following?
23. Your primary care physician requires you to see a pulmonologist. Pulmonology is defined as?
24. As a healthcare information technologist, there are standards in which you must abide by for managing and integrating electronic healthcare information. Which of the following is responsible for instituting those standards?
25. Two employees, the billing supervisor and the insurance verification secretary, email each other regarding a patient's billing situation. Which of the following would be the least effective way to ensure the PHI of the patient?