Health Information Technology (HIT) & Health Information Management (HIM): Database Recommendations

3D interactive models of human anatomy as well as quizzes, x-rays, MRI scans, animations, and clinical case studies. Video clips can be downloaded for use in presentations.

DITKI, by Draw It to Know It, features a multi-media course on anatomy and physiology as well as two others to prepare for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX).

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.

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.

Cross-searches numerous Gale databases, including health/medical databases, as well as other databases with a variety of subject-area coverage.

Over 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and ebooks that may link to full text content. Some content is Open Access.

STAT!Ref = Immediately (STAT) available Reference Books (Ref). This collection of medical e-books includes ICD-10 CM & PCS, ICD-9-CM - VOLUMES 1, 2 & 3, as well as ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS conversion widgets. The widgets allow you to enter ICD-9-CM or ICD-9-PCS codes and get the ICD-10-CM or ICD-10-PCS equivalents.

Full text articles from 1,000 reference titles such as subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also includes over 1,100 short reference videos and over 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps.

Ebooks from general and scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers, on numerous subjects, including various health & medical areas. Each ebook includes tools for creating citations, note-taking, highlighting, and bookmarking.

Ebooks from numerous subject areas, including various health & medical areas.

*To see only ebook content, be sure to select Reference.

Searchable medical and allied health reference books.

Freely available! Another database made available through the National Library of Medicine, this database has health information on over 1000 topics with information oriented toward patients.

Full text articles from 274 journals plus over 3,700 evidence-based health reports, and 480 reference books covering mainstream and alternative medicine. Some content in Spanish.

Full text articles from 80 consumer health magazines, 100 reference books, and current health pamphlets. 

**Note: To find patient-oriented information, first run your search, and then use the top filter to the left of the results that defaults to All Titles and change that filter to Patient Information.