Health Information Management and Technology: Articles/Journals

Here is a selected list of Medical Transcription/Billing and Coding journals available online and/or in print at the Marvin library:

Billing Alert for Long Term Care

Briefings on Coding Compliance Stratgeies

Medical Records Briefing

A selected list of Medical journals available online or in print at the Marvin library:

Lancet

Nature - Medicine - up to 1 year ago

New England Journal of Medicine

Science

Medical Transcription/Billing and Coding may be covered in databases related to health sciences or general information:

Health Sciences databases

General databases

In particular, you may wish to search these specific databases:

• Associates Program Source:
  • New this year!
  • Covers nearly 1,000 full-text journals
  • Designed specifically for 2 year colleges with comprehensive coverage of the most relevant associate level progams
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text: 
  • CINAHL stands for Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  • Contains journal articles from 2,900 journals in the field of nursing and allied health
  • Best for Nursing students and faculty and other allied health professionals like radiology technicians, dental hygienists, etc.
  • Search by using the CINAHL headings for best results, selecting major concept
• MEDLINE with Full Text:
  • Used by medical professionals world-wide for the most up-to-date medical information
  • Best to use if looking for the more specific technical information about a disease, treatment or clinical trial
  • Search by MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) for best results
  • Some results will overlap with CINAHL
• PUBMED: Located at www.pubmed.gov.  The same as MedLine with Full Text but the screen searching features are different. 
  • Available freely anywhere.
• Grey Literature:
  • Created by the librarians of the New York Academy of Medicine
  • Grey Literature are publications that are not controlled by commercial publishers.  These publications include but are not limited to theses, conference proceedings,  technical reports, preliminary progress reports, statistical reports, etc.
  • Often times these publications are hard to find; this database gathers many types of grey literature
  • This type of literature is being used in evidence-based review to remove bias

What is the Grey Literature?

In general, grey literature publications are non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral publications.

They may include, but are not limited to the following types of materials:

• reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda, state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.)
• theses, conference proceedings
• technical specifications and standards
• non-commercial translations
• bibliographies
• technical and commercial documentation
• official documents not published commercially (primarily government reports and documents

Source:  The New York Academy of Medicine, http://www.greylit.org/about