whats your opinions on the Healthcare IT Technician specialty certification COMPTia

DoubleD

whats your opinions on the Healthcare IT Technician specialty certification COMPTia
is it worth it?

Daniel333

A quick dice.com search for Comptia Healthcare shows three jobs that might like to see that cert. So I would say it value at this point in time is 0. That being said in a few years as Comptia Markets the program to healthcare orgs it might start gaining some traction. But as it stands you're better off investing your time and money into something with a current higher rate of return.

ptilsen

I don't work in healthcare, but my gut reaction from the start has been no. Maybe if you have just an A+ (or less) and no experience and want to break in the healthcare industry specifically it will help you. Otherwise, I don't really see the point. IT doesn't fundamentally change much between industries -- in some cases, it doesn't change at all.

Maybe it adds a couple points to the entry-level resume, but I really think time and money is better spend on pursuing a higher-level systems, networking, or security certification.

DoubleD

just another money spinner for comptia then

coming soon the schools technician certification frm comptia

cmitchell_00

I agree with Daniel333 it's not "hot" yet. However, since HIPPA is big and Cisco/Comptia have created healthcare certifications ramp up now. I believe since Cloud Computing and Virutalization is the future; I really think Healthcare I.T. professionals will be needed too i.e. Virutalization certs (Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware). In the hospital and healthcare field many different vendor hardware/software is used everyday. Therefore, an skilled healthcare certified professional on hand will be like the old days of desktop and server admins being the focal point.

Michael.J.Palmer

I work for an Electronic Healthcare Record software vendor and I have to say that as of right now, it doesn't exactly carry any weight and can be ignored for the time being. The only thing I can imagine that it would cover anyways is probably basic ideas of ICD-9 (and maybe ICD-10), CPT, etc. and maybe HIPAA and patient privacy/security practices. Everything else in HIT is your basic garden variety IT anyways, I think personally it was just something CompTIA decided to throw out there because HIT is the hot new ticket in town and it'll attract all the gullable IT cert lovers to go and spend money on another useless CompTIA piece of paper.

DoubleD

it may come in handy with obama care?

Everyone

When I worked in Healthcare IT, they organization I worked for didn't care about certs at all. I have a couple friends that work at other Healthcare organizations, and theirs don't care about them either.

NinjaBoy

For us in the UK, it's not worth it as it's geared up towards the US market (inc laws).

DoubleD wrote: »

...coming soon the schools technician certification frm comptia

In the UK, we actually have something along those lines, the Framework for ICT Technical Support (FITS) - Intro, Practitioner (level 3) and Advanced (level 4) - new versions. Previous versions were Practitioner (level 4, comparable to a first year module at Uni) and Manager (level 5, comparable to a second year module at Uni). Best practice methodology for the education sector based on ITIL.

So we've beat Comptia to it

TSaL

Everyone wrote: »

When I worked in Healthcare IT, they organization I worked for didn't care about certs at all. I have a couple friends that work at other Healthcare organizations, and theirs don't care about them either.

I work in healthcare and it was my first job. During the interview they were happy that i had a A+. I have gotten promoted and 2 raises because i continue on the certification tracks.

I like the looks of this Comptia Healthcare Tech exam. If I was still in desktop support and was still under a year or 2 of experience i would go for this exam.

NetworkingStudent

DoubleD wrote: »

whats your opinions on the Healthcare IT Technician specialty certification COMPTia
is it worth it?

I’m going for this exam after I pass my 70-680, but after reading the comments it seems like it doesn’t have much value. I find the HIPPA laws interesting.

N2IT

NetworkingStudent wrote: »

I’m going for this exam after I pass my 70-680, but after reading the comments it seems like it doesn’t have much value. I find the HIPPA laws interesting.

Being at a hospital you get plenty of exposure to those laws. It seems like a lot of the good hospitals have good HIPAA training progams in place. IMO it's experience or bust with HIPAA.