فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: Health Information Management, as a well-established field of study which hasits own voice, genre, and journals, introduced itself as an independent and significant fieldof academia which deals with issues like health classification and terminologies, electronichealth records (HER), confidentiality, health systems and technology, and health informatics.The current study was set to investigate the most frequent 4-word lexical bundles, thesemantic structures of lexical bundles, and the pragmatic functions of lexical bundles in thecorpus of Health Information Management academic texts.Methods: In this study, a content analysis method was used. The health informationmanagement corpus included 2,210,466 words from the research articles and course books.Antconc 3.4.4 Software package was used to identify the lexical bundles. Lexical bundles interms of 3-grams to 5-grams were identified using the software, with a cut-off point frequencyof 20 per one million words, as per Biber et al. (2006).Results: The results showed that the most frequent bundle was “at the time of ”. It was alsorevealed that the most frequent types of phrases in the health information managementcorpus were noun phrases and prepositional phrases, followed by verb phrases.Conclusions: The study found that the pragmatic functions of lexical bundles in the HealthInformation Management Corpus were grouped into three major categories includingresearch-oriented bundles, text-oriented bundles, and participant-oriented bundles.