Research Guides: M.S. in Health Informatics: Articles / Databases

Journals

You can find hundreds of journals and magazines on healthcare for free in the library databases listed on the "databases" tab. You can also search for specific journals using our journal finder (see our Research & Search Help page). Here is a list of journals recommended by our faculty:

BMJ Health & Care Informatics
Open access journal which publishes international, peer-reviewed, high-quality research and evaluation, reviews, protocols, letters, commentaries and communication articles.
Health Informatics Journal
Features contributions from the fields of informatics and telematics, the health professions, computer science, engineering and management.
Informatics
An international peer-reviewed open access journal on information and communication technologies, human–computer interaction, and social informatics, and is published quarterly online by MDPI.
Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
Presents articles that assist physicians, informaticians, scientists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop and apply medical informatics to patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Available in the Electronic Journal Center, Science Direct and Science Direct Open Access Titles databases
Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics
Available in the Medline with Full Text databse

Databases

You can find articles on a given healthcare topic in one of our specialized article databases. Here are links to our databases which are recommended for searching for health informatics:

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text of the literature of nursing and allied health.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK) This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 7,000 research journals.
MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,370 journals.
Nursing & Allied Health This link opens in a new window
Mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews which takes a holistic and interdisciplinary approach.

Open Access

A variety of information is available through open access materials, including articles, statistics, datasets and multimedia. For more information about open access sources, see the "Finding OER" page on our Open Educational Resources (OER) guide.

Clinical eCompanion
A search engine developed by health sciences librarians to provide a "point-of-care information tool for use by primary care providers in answering real-time clinical questions" with resources that are "are free and from reliable sources."
PubMed Central
"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

Articles

Big Data in Health Informatics
Rao, A. A., & Srivastava, A. (2018). Big Data in Health Informatics. ASCI Journal of Management, 47(2), 36–46.
Context Sensitive Health Informatics: Delivering 21st Century Healthcare - Building a Quality-and-Efficiency Driven System
Wong, Z. S.-Y., Nøhr, C., Kuziemsky, C. E., Leung, E., & Chen, F. (2017). Context Sensitive Health Informatics: Delivering 21st Century Healthcare - Building a Quality-and-Efficiency Driven System. Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, 241, 1–5
The Evolution of Health Informatics
Terry, K. S. (2018). The Evolution of Health Informatics. Proceedings of the Northeast Business & Economics Association, 305–309

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