I. PROQUEST HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION PERIODICALS
ProQuest offers full text journal databases in two programs, Criminal Justice and Health Care Administration.
For best results, set the drop down menu to focus your search on Criminal Justice periodicals.
Place a checkmark in the small box for "Full text documents only" when searchng.
If you need to browse an electronic periodical and read it through, press the "Publications" tab first. Then proceed to choose title of periodical and date of periodical you would like to read.
II. EBRARY ACADEMIC COMPLETE - E-BOOKS
In Ebrary, you can find several hundred e-books in health care management topics.
Ebrary has virtually no e-books on billling and coding.
To search for e-books in Ebrary, be in the "Search" tab.
To find health care administration e-books, you can search with the following subjects for a head start in Ebrary:
| Allied health | Medical care -- United States |
| Confidential communications -- Physicians | Medical economics |
| Health care education | Medical errors |
| Health care finance | Medical finance |
| Health care reform | Medical informatics |
| Health facilities | Medical personnel |
| Health in mass media | Medical personnel and patient |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 | Medical policy -- United States -- History |
| Health planning | Medical records |
| Health resources | Medically uninsured persons |
| Health services administration | Medicare |
| Hospitals | Medicine -- Computer networks |
| Information storage and retrieval systems -- Medical care | Patients |
| Insurance, heatlh | Public health -- United States |
| Managed care | Transcultural medical care |
| Medicaid | World health |
| Medical care, Cost of | (your own names and topics) |
You can save e-books you find into your personal e-bookshelf, by pressing buttons at e-book page views which indicate you can add books to your bookshelf. Then, press "Bookshelf" tab to return to saved e-book.
III. LIRN PERIODICALS AND ARTICLE DATABASES
LIRN has several databases with a broad coverage of articles in health topics related to health care administration or allied health.
After logging in to LIRN, view the main LIRN menu, and press either grey button,
"Connect to InfoTrac" or "Connect to ProQuest."
"Connect to InfoTrac" in LIRN: Health Care databases
+ "Health Reference Center Academic" in InfoTrac in LIRN,
+ "Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module" in InfoTrac in LIRN, and
"Connect to ProQuest" in LIRN: Health Care databases
+ "ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source"
Search full-text journals and best practice information sheets from Joanna Briggs Institute.
+ "ProQuest Health and Medical Complete"
Nearly 1200 full-text titles in consumer and health administration journals; includes charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, and some photos
+ "Health Module" under ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
List of LIRN's ProQuest allied health resources:
IV. WEB SITE RESOURCES IN THE PROFESSION
Click here for some leading web sites, for billing and coding and health care administration.
12-16-09