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| Welcome |
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| The Louisiana Center for Health Informatics (LCHI) is one of several designated "Unique Areas of Excellence" at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette).
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| [Note: From 1999 until 2009, LCHI was known as the "Health
Informatics Center of Acadiana", a name that was frequently abbreviated
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"HICA". This website contains many references to the former name
as the publisher of various research reports issued during that
period.] |
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here for a description of the mission of the Louisiana Center
for Health Informatics. |
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| Recent Presentations of LCHI (and HICA) Activities
and Outcomes |
Activities and outcomes of LCHI and HICA
projects have been presented at various academic and research conferences
and in other settings other the last several years.
Selected presentations are accessible below. |
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| HICA Preliminary Analysis of Katrina/Rita Evacuee Medical Records, as Recorded by Operation Minnesota Lifeline Volunteers
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| 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. |
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| Click here to view the HICA report of this project. |
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| HICA and the Region IV Healthcare Planning Council |
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| 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. |
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| Click here to enter a repository of selected Region IV information resources. |
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| HICA and the Louisiana HABITS Research Reports |
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| 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. |
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| Click here to access the Louisiana HABITS research reports. |
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| L. Philip Caillouet PhD FHIMSS, LCHI Director |
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| L. Philip Caillouet PhD FHIMSS,
Director of the Louisiana Center for Health Informatics at The
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is a Professor in the Department
of
Health Information Management
in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions and is
the current holder of the J. Robert Rivet MD / BORSF
Endowed Chair in Health Informatics. Dr.
Caillouet also teaches in the Health Care Administration graduate
program (an option of the M.B.A. curriculum) in the
B. I. Moody III College of Business Administration. He is a member
of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), a
Fellow of the Health Information and Management Systems Society
(HIMSS), and was a founding board member of the Louisiana Chapter
of HIMSS. He has been a member of the board of the Louisiana
Health Care Quality Forum (LHCQF) and the Louisiana Health Care
Commission (LHCC), and is an active collaborator with many local
health and social services organizations. |
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| Click here to access the curriculum
vitae of the LCHI Director. |
| Click here to
access the UL Lafayette faculty homepage of the LCHI Director. |
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
L. Philip Caillouet PhD FHIMSS
Director, Louisiana Center for Health Informatics
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
V. L. Wharton Hall Room 453
P. O. Box 41007, Lafayette LA 70504-1007
Telephone: 337-482-6160
Facsimile: 337-482-5902
E-mail: caillouet@louisiana.edu
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