Research Guides : Health Information Technology
Suggested Search Terms / Call Numbers Range
LC Class Number: R858 - R859.7
Medical informatics
Search Also Under:
Information science
Medicine Data processing
The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine
JOURNAL ARTICLES
ACM
Digital Library
Provides full text from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) journal
and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
[ Suggested subject term: Medical Information Systems ]
Applied
Science & Technology Full Text
Subset of Wilson OmniFile Full text Mega. Indexing 1983-current, Full text
1997-current.
[ Suggest subject terms: Hospitals/Computer Use ]
CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
Provides citations to over 2200 journals. Indexes 1982-current.
[ Suggested subject terms: Information technology, health information, medical
informatics, nursing informatics, informatics ]
Computer
and Information Systems Abstracts
Provides indexing with abstracts covering the latest theoretical research
and practical applications of computers and information systems with international
coverage of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications.
Computer
Sciences
[ Available in Gale Virtual Reference Library - FS Only ]
Provides full text essays reviewing the history of the discipline and its
concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers
on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate
and support trends. Indexes approximately 1981-current. About 50% of its
records have publication dates of 1991 or later
Essential
Nursing Collection
Provides full text indexing for what is considered the premier nursing collection
of 40 nursing journals.1980-current.
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides indexing with abstracts for more than 800 journals covering nursing
and allied health with nearly 450 peer-reviewed, journals and 550 providing
full text. Full text 1975-current.
[ Suggested subject terms: information technology, medical informatics ]
Library
Literature & Information Science Full Text
Subset of Wilson OmniFile Full text Mega. Indexing 1983-current, Full text
1997-current.
[ Suggest subject term: Information systems/Public health ]
Library, Information
Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management. Indexes
more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
Coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
MEDLINE
(via EBSCOhost)
Provides indexing with abstracts of authoritative medical information with
abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals on medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences,
and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.
Suggested search term: medical informatics: The field of information science
concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the
application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.
MEDLINE
(via CSA)
Provides indexing with abstracts to biomedical literature covering a broad
range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration,
policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library
of Medicine, MEDLINE contains all records published in Index Medicus and
since 2002, most citations previously included in separate NLM specialty
databases such as SPACELINE and HISTLINE. Indexes 1994-current.
Suggested search term: medical informatics: The field of information science
concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the
application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.
REFERENCE
The
latest word 2001: a glossary of healthcare information technology terms
[ Available in netLibrary - FS Only ]
WEB SITES
American Medical Informatics
Association
[ http://www.amia.org/ ]
Journal of the American
Medical Informatics Association
[ http://www.jamia.org/ ]
Pay site covering: v.1(1994) - [Latest 6 months not available online].
Google
– Directory > Health > Medicine > Informatics
http://www.google.com/Top/Health/Medicine/Informatics/
Yahoo
- Directory > Health > Medicine > Informatics
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/Informatics/
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