CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, draws information from more than 3000 journals, including journals relevant to HIM/HIT, such as Perspectives in Health Information Management, Journal of AHIMA, Health Care Innovations, and more.
This is the largest biomedical database, and is cross-searching over 5000 journals that have been selected by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). With these journals being selected by NLM for inclusion in PubMed, you can consider the content to be scholarly.
This HUGE database is actually cross-searching the very large databases Academic Onefile and General Onefile, as well as other Gale databases, so it is a great place to look when you have a challenging topic to research. Note: This database is not specific to the health & medical field, so you'll need to add in keywords that will focus on this area.
Example Search: Continous quality improvement and hospitals
Health information on over 1000 topics including links and preformulated searches for the MEDLINE/PubMed database. Also includes encyclopedia articles, medical images and videos, and drug and supplement information.
This is a very large business database that cross-searches numerous journals and magazines, including healthcare business and finance journals - where medical coding and billing are based. Note: This database is not specific to the health & medical field, so you'll need to add in keywords that will focus on this area.
Example Search: Six sigma and healthcare