IT Training In Tough Times: Health Technology Certs

Today on Tom's IT Pro: Top 5 IT Certifications in Healthcare and Making It in IT: Asking about Healthcare IT Certification.

Tom's IT Pro publishes the latest articles by IT training and certification expert Ed Tittel. The first presents some essential certification options for health IT workers.

As Ed points out, with the rising interest in Healthcare IT, there are numerous certifications targeted specifically at health IT workers. He adds, "It’s reasonable to expect this number to grow, both in terms of sponsoring organizations and in the number of credentials on offer, in the years ahead."

In this article, Ed provides us with his picks on the top 5 HIT (Healthcare IT) certifications.

The story is the latest in our important series of articles that tackle a subject close to the heart of information technology professionals, that of IT training and certification. Especially in the current economy, training and certification increase the marketability of IT pros, leading to greater job mobility and opportunities to do the most interesting work.

Second,  in a recent post to his  Making It in IT - Certification & Training blog, Ed answers a timely inquiry from a reader that touches on the subject of Healthcare IT certifications. In a separate article. Ed cites how  his Tom's IT Pro blog has recently gained some recognition from a provider of online training.

Recently, Ed also examined the Top Programming Certifications for IT Pros, Top Virtualization Certs for IT Pros and the Top 5 Computer Forensics Certifications, The latter covers the often convoluted world of computer forensic and digital investigation programs and certifications, while in the former Ed points out how virtualization skills and knowledge, and by extension virtualization certifications, are good for any IT professional who works with systems, networks or IT infrastructure or architecture to pursue and possess.

Another recent article in the series, Top 5 Cloud-Related IT Certifications, covers the growing importance of IT-related Cloud Computing certifications to IT professionals. After all, the Cloud has become a permanent fixture for companies and organizations around the world over the last five years. So it behooves the ambitious IT pro to, at the least, investigate the Cloud Computing credentials available to them.

Our first article in our IT training and certification group of stories provides a comprehensive overview that explains what 36 IT training companies do and how well they do it. The article includes several quick-read tables to assist busy IT pros looking to increase their knowledge and advance their careers. The tables grade and describe training providers that cover most subject areas as well as those that are vendor or niche specific, such as those that are focused on information security, forensics and more.

Additional articles delve more deeply into specific subject areas such as security, networking, system administration, programming, forensics, database, ERP and so on. There is also a sub-series that focuses on evergreen certifications, as well as articles covering DIY certification programs, online and classroom training, never-fail exam tune-ups, getting the best bang for your IT certification dollars, finding the best exam prep courses and, of course, how to plan a brilliant certification career.

Also, check out the latest article in Ed's Tom's IT Pro blog, In it,  he offers thoughtful and useful advice to a reader with a welcome degree of self-awareness.

James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.