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

Database Suggestions

Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new window
3D interactive models of human anatomy as well as media, x-rays, MRIs, animations, and live-action movies. Video clips can be downloaded for use in presentations.

ABI/INFORM (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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.
Gale PowerSearch This link opens in a new window
Cross-searches numerous Gale databases, including health/medical databases, as well as other databases with a variety of subject-area coverage.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Over 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and ebooks that may link to full text content. Some articles, journals, and books are Open Access.
STAT!Ref (Teton Data Systems) This link opens in a new window
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.

Credo This link opens in a new window
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.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Ebooks from numerous subject areas, including various health & medical areas.
Health and Wellness (Gale) This link opens in a new window
*To see only ebook content, be sure to select Reference.
STAT!Ref (Teton Data Systems) This link opens in a new window
Searchable medical and allied health reference books.

MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
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.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from and citations for over 500 publications on health and wellness topics from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from 80 consumer health magazines, 130 reference books, and 1,000 pamphlets. Also includes 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports in English and Spanish.
STAT!Ref (Teton Data Systems) This link opens in a new window
**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.

Databases A - Z Alphabetical list of FLITE's more than 100 databases.
Databases by Broad Subject Areas Business, Financial, & Legal; Education & Career; General & Multidisciplinary; Health & Medical; Humanities; Librarian Resources; News Service / Newspapers; Reference; Science & Technology; Social Sciences
Databases by Major: All listings within system
Databases by Major: COHP, MCO & Pharmacy Database recommendations for College of Pharmacy, College of Health Professions, and Michigan College of Optometry
Ebook Databases Find full ebooks or relevant chapters / book entries.
Reference: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries.... Need an encyclopedia entry or a definition? Try these databases.
Video Databases Streaming videos.

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Subjects: Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Professions, Dental Hygiene, Health Care System Administration, Health Info Tech / Health Info Mgmt, Medical Laboratory Science, Medicine, Molecular Diagnostics, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Public Health, Radiography, Respiratory Care, Sonography