Health Information Technology
Scope
This research guide will help the user locate books, articles, and Internet resources dealing with health information technology.
SUBJECT HEADINGS/SEARCH TERMS
You can use the MPTC Catalog to find books and/or videos dealing with this topic.
Suggested search terms include:
Medical records
Information resources management
Forms and records control
Medical informatics
Confidentiality
Hospital administration
PERIODICAL INDEXES
Ebsco
Contains articles from over 5000 magazines and journals covering a wide variety of topics.
Health Reference Center- Academic
Information from a variety of health related publications.
PERIODICALS
Advance for Health Information Professionals
Advance for Health Information Executives
For the Record
Hospitals & Health Networks
Journal for Healthcare Quality
Journal of AHIMA
NEWSLETTERS
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
INTERNET SITES
Administrative Simplification
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/admnsimp/
Contains links to information concerning the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).
ADVANCE For Health Information Professionals Online
http://www.advanceforhim.com/
This is the online version of the print publication of the same name. There is also a daily news watch and a section devoted to HIPPA news.
AHIMA Homepage
http://www.ahima.org/
This is the homepage for the American Health Information Management Association. In addition to association news there is a resource center for patients and consumers, a hot topics section, and answers to frequently asked questions.
American Medical Informatics Association
http://www.amia.org/
Visitors to this site can search back issues of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Article abstracts are available free of charge. The Resource Center area of the site offers links to a variety of information sources including current news stories.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/
This site contains information on the topic of privacy and electronic information. There is a section of the site devoted to medical information.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
http://www.himss.org/ASP/index.asp
In addition to news about current developments in the health information field this site contains full text articles from the Journal of Healthcare Information Management.
himinfo.com: The Health Information Management Supersite
http://www.himinfo.com/
What’s New, HIPPA, Coding and Compliance, are just some of the topics covered on this site. Visitors can also sign up for free weekly e-mail newsletters.
Information Technology & Healthcare: @ Brint.com
http://www.brint.com/Medicine.htm
This site provides links to a wide variety of health information resources. Included are reports, guides, journals and papers on such topics as information privacy and security, telemedicine, and medicine and the Internet.
MI-INFO: Michigan Informatics
http://www.sph.umich.edu/mi-info/
This site contains a variety of tutorials that deal with health information and computer skills. All told, it contains nine tutorials which include titles like "Evidence Based Public Health", "Finding Health Statistics Online", and "Searching the Public Health Literature". Each of the tutorials features key concept overviews, exercises, and case studies. Also incudes a user's manual.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Provides the user with information about the working conditions, training and other qualifications, job outlook, and earnings for a given profession.
Wisconsin Health Information Management Association
http://www.whima.org/
This site contains information about services, publications, conferences, and links to other sites of interest to anyone interested in the health information field. Membership is required to access some of the information.
Updated 6/2009
