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| Welcome | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Health Informatics Center of Acadiana (HICA) is one of several designated "Unique Areas of Excellence" at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here for a description of the mission of the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Announces Recruitment for Telehealth Chair | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The University of Louisiana at Lafayette invites nominations and applications for the Acadian Ambulance/BORSF Chair in Telehealth. The applicant must have an earned doctorate in a medical or information systems-related field. Successful applicants must also have a strong record of public and extramural funding. The holder of the chair must also have the academic qualifications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. Duties include teaching and mentoring undergraduate/graduate students in HIM & Health Informatics, seeking funding and conducting research in the area of community, rural, and industrial telehealth applications, and some administrative responsibilities in the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana. The University is a Doctoral Research University (high research activity) public institution located in Lafayette, the heart of French Louisiana and a very pleasant and exciting place to live. It has an enrollment of approximately 16,000 students with a faculty of 550 and serves as the base of Louisiana’s off-shore industry, as well as the financial, retail, and medical center for South-Central Louisiana. Starting date: The search committee will review applications and continue until the position is filled; however, submission of materials by December 1, 2007 is strongly encouraged. Candidates should send a letter of application, current vita and transcript, and three letters of reference to: Carol Venable, Department Head Health Information Management The University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 41007 Lafayette, LA 70504-1007 Tel: 337-482-6629 Fax: 337-482-5902 E-mail: venable@louisiana.edu EEO#: SC 2-07 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Presentation at MedInfo 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Director L. Philip Caillouet Ph.D. presented a paper at the 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics (MedInfo 2007) in Brisbane, Australia, on August 22, 2007. The presentation, entitled "The Health Informatics Center of Acadiana -- Informing Health Policymaking in Post-Katrina/Rita Louisiana,"offered details of HICA's current research agenda. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides (PDF) from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides (PPT) from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Poster Presentation at 2007 AMIA Spring Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||
| On May 22, 2007, HICA Director L. Philip Caillouet Ph.D. participated in a poster session at the 2007 Spring Congress of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Caillouet presented a poster version of his MedInfo 2007 paper "The Health Informatics Center of Acadiana -- Informing Health Policymaking in Post-Katrina/Rita Louisiana." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA poster from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Preliminary Analysis of Katrina/Rita Evacuee Medical Records, as Recorded by Operation Minnesota Lifeline Volunteers | ||||||||||||||||||||
| From September 5, 2005, through November 4, 2005, volunteer physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals associated with Operation Minnesota Lifeline (OML) provided care to thousands of persons evacuated from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, in temporary clinics set up in evacuation shelters, churches, hotels, and parish health unit buildings. OML staff captured encounter data on hastily prepared paper medical record forms that were effective at the point of care but not very useful as ongoing health records, nor as sources for statistical analysis of the total care given or of the types of care that may be needed during a future evacuation. At the request of the Louisiana Office of Public Health, HICA took on the responsibility of transcribing the paper records into electronic form. HICA preliminary analysis of data of OML-treated patients is published in this document. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA report of this project. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Presentation at the 2005 Louisiana e-Health Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Organizers of the Louisiana e-Health Conference invited a presentation on projects of the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana, at its March 10 2005 meeting at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Presentation to the LRHAP Legislative Update | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Louisiana Rural Health Access Program (LRHAP) invited a presentation on the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana's Louisiana HABITS research methods and findings at its January 20 2005 Legislative Update luncheon for the Acadiana legislative delegation. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA Presentation to the Region IV Healthcare Consortium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The newly organized Region IV Healthcare Consortium invited a presentation of research findings of the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana at its December 8 2004 meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA and the Region IV Healthcare Planning Council | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Region IV Healthcare Planning Council was formed in July 2003, as a result of Senate Concurrent Resolution 150 of the 2003 Louisiana Legislature, "to develop an integrated plan for medical care of the indigent in Lafayette Parish and the six surrounding parishes [Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion]" collectively designated as "Region IV" by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. As instructed in its charter, the Council reported "to a joint meeting of the [Louisiana Legislature's] Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and the House Committee on Health and Welfare ... [in] April 2004 regarding the development of an integrated plan ... including the economic feasibility of implementation." During the period when the Council was formulating its plan, the Governor and the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced a statewide healthcare summit for March 2004, to be preceded by pre-summit meetings in every region of the state in February 2004. Later in the year 2004, these signal events were followed by the formation of a statewide panel and of regional consortia. While a new Region IV Healthcare Consortium is expected to supersede the charter of the former Council, several interim work products of the Council may found to be of ongoing value. The Health Informatics Center of Acadiana (HICA) at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette was responsible for the creation of some of these valuable resources. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to enter a repository of selected Region IV information resources. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| HICA and the Louisiana HABITS Research Reports | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana HABITS is a consumer survey methodology, developed at the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana (HICA) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, intended to assist communities in establishing a baseline of healthcare access barrier indicators and in comparing those indicators over time as initiatives are launched to reduce barriers to access to healthcare services. Louisiana HABITS has been employed by HICA in conjunction with the Louisiana Rural Health Access Program and with the Rapides Foundation. To date, a total of twenty-two parishes have been surveyed at least once. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to access the Louisiana HABITS research reports. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UL Lafayette Research Center Directors' Meeting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Health Informatics Center of Acadiana hosted a meeting of the UL Lafayette Research Center Directors on Thursday, October 28 2004. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to view the HICA presentation slides from that meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| L. Philip Caillouet Ph.D., HICA Director | ||||||||||||||||||||
| L. Philip Caillouet Ph.D., Director of the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is a Professor in the Department of Health Information Management in the College of Sciences and the current holder of the J. Robert Rivet Chair in Health Informatics. He also teaches in the Health Care Administration graduate program (an option of the M.B.A. curriculum) and in the Business Systems Analysis & Technology undergraduate program -- both in the B. I. Moody III College of Business Administration. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to access the curriculum vitae of the HICA Director. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Click here to access the UL Lafayette faculty homepage of the HICA Director. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Document last revised Thursday, January 3, 2008 2:27 PM
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Health Informatics Center of Acadiana
P.O. Box 41007, Lafayette LA 70504-1007
Phone: 337/482-6160 · Facsimile: 337/482-5902
Wharton Hall, Room 501 · caillouet@louisiana.edu
