Bureau of Health Informatics | Louisiana Department of Health
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Bureau of Health Informatics | Louisiana Department of Health
Bureau of Health Informatics
Offices & Administration
Divisions
Office of Public Health
Bureau of Health Informatics
The application and dissemination of informatics knowledge and expertise to public health professionals is the key to unlocking the potential of information systems to improve the health of the residents of Louisiana. The Bureau serves as the hub for many OPH-wide data and informatics efforts, coordinating legislative mandates for reporting, managing Meaningful Use for Public Health, providing data and visualization services, managing the Electronic Health Records system for the parish health clinics, and other Office-wide and external efforts and partnerships.
Our Mission
To inform and facilitate efforts to improve the health of Louisiana communities through strategic collection, analysis and presentation of available population health, health care and health indicator data.
How BHI intends to fulfill its mission:
Collaboration through strategic data analysis, improved data sharing, data integration and technology infrastructure that promotes interoperability and reduces insularity in health data systems
Healthcare quality improvement support through targeted outreach activities like data presentation, focused analysis, GIS hot-spotting and other data visualization techniques
Access to our work in a quality, timely, and innovative manner
Act 769: Pediatric Fentanyl Event Reporting
Act 769 of the 2024 Legislative Session
requires that hospitals treating minors for suspected opioid overdoses include fentanyl testing in the minor's drug screening. Positive results are to be reported to the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health.
More Information
Areas of Interest
Louisiana Health Care Databases Project
Consumer Right to Know
Electronic Health Records system for parish health units
Opioid Surveillance Initiative
Meaningful use reporting for public health
Electronic Laboratory Data, Immunizations, Syndromic Surveillance
Population health analytics
Data visualization/mapping, data reporting
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Epidemiology for Vital Statistics and Chronic Disease
Cross-program data analysis and data sharing
External collaboration with partners in health-related organizations
Health data policy
BHI is also designed as the hub through which OPH becomes more engaged with the rest of the health care community and the public. BHI will drive overall data policy to support the agency's capacity to manage and use data to optimize operations and perform coordinated analytics to advance core public health functions:
Convene epidemiologists and program leaders to strategize agency-wide analytic priorities and approaches
Regularly convene epidemiologists and data analysts for robust skill building activities
Support adoption of key advanced analytic methods to be used across the agency
Provide or coordinate technical assistance for advanced analytics
GIS/spatial analytics
SAS & STATA
Provide or coordinate technical assistance with SMEs for appropriate use of population data sets
National data sources (i.e. US Census, American Community Survey, etc.)
Louisiana data (i.e. such as Vital Records, Medicaid, LaHIDD)
Maintain agreements for data sharing and provide consultation on permitted uses
Collaborate with ethics & IRB
Work with SME's to identify and develop the "datasets of truth" for analytics
Coordinate and support the implementation of OPH electronic health records and meaningful use activities
Work with LDH IT to assure appropriate technology resources (hardware/software) for data staff
Work with agency and program leadership to prioritize the data that should be available to the public
Develop strategies to "liberate" public health knowledge gained from analytics when appropriate and to making "public use" datasets available
For Providers - Louisiana Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database
Learn more
For the Public - Health Report Card
Learn more
Request Public Health Data
Learn more
Leadership
Lee Mendoza, PhD
Director
Nell Wilson
Operations Manager
Daniella Wilson
Clinical System Support Manager
Arun Adhikari, PhD
Business Intelligence Manager
Contact
Get in touch with BHI
Email
225-342-4901
News & Resources
News
Apr 22, 2026
LDH confirms measles case in Region 1
Mar 16, 2026
OPH Bureau of Engineering Services launches new public records information management system
Feb 04, 2026
LDH expands the Louisiana Carrot Initiative to East Baton Rouge and Orleans parishes
More News
Quick Links
American Community Survey
CDC Wonder
Community Commons
Health Care Cost and Utilization Project
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Census Data
Surgeon General
Evelyn Griffin, MD
Secretary
Bruce D. Greenstein
Powered by
Cicero Government
Bureau of Health Informatics
Offices & Administration
Divisions
Office of Public Health
Bureau of Health Informatics
The application and dissemination of informatics knowledge and expertise to public health professionals is the key to unlocking the potential of information systems to improve the health of the residents of Louisiana. The Bureau serves as the hub for many OPH-wide data and informatics efforts, coordinating legislative mandates for reporting, managing Meaningful Use for Public Health, providing data and visualization services, managing the Electronic Health Records system for the parish health clinics, and other Office-wide and external efforts and partnerships.
Our Mission
To inform and facilitate efforts to improve the health of Louisiana communities through strategic collection, analysis and presentation of available population health, health care and health indicator data.
How BHI intends to fulfill its mission:
Collaboration through strategic data analysis, improved data sharing, data integration and technology infrastructure that promotes interoperability and reduces insularity in health data systems
Healthcare quality improvement support through targeted outreach activities like data presentation, focused analysis, GIS hot-spotting and other data visualization techniques
Access to our work in a quality, timely, and innovative manner
Act 769: Pediatric Fentanyl Event Reporting
Act 769 of the 2024 Legislative Session
requires that hospitals treating minors for suspected opioid overdoses include fentanyl testing in the minor's drug screening. Positive results are to be reported to the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health.
More Information
Areas of Interest
Louisiana Health Care Databases Project
Consumer Right to Know
Electronic Health Records system for parish health units
Opioid Surveillance Initiative
Meaningful use reporting for public health
Electronic Laboratory Data, Immunizations, Syndromic Surveillance
Population health analytics
Data visualization/mapping, data reporting
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Epidemiology for Vital Statistics and Chronic Disease
Cross-program data analysis and data sharing
External collaboration with partners in health-related organizations
Health data policy
BHI is also designed as the hub through which OPH becomes more engaged with the rest of the health care community and the public. BHI will drive overall data policy to support the agency's capacity to manage and use data to optimize operations and perform coordinated analytics to advance core public health functions:
Convene epidemiologists and program leaders to strategize agency-wide analytic priorities and approaches
Regularly convene epidemiologists and data analysts for robust skill building activities
Support adoption of key advanced analytic methods to be used across the agency
Provide or coordinate technical assistance for advanced analytics
GIS/spatial analytics
SAS & STATA
Provide or coordinate technical assistance with SMEs for appropriate use of population data sets
National data sources (i.e. US Census, American Community Survey, etc.)
Louisiana data (i.e. such as Vital Records, Medicaid, LaHIDD)
Maintain agreements for data sharing and provide consultation on permitted uses
Collaborate with ethics & IRB
Work with SME's to identify and develop the "datasets of truth" for analytics
Coordinate and support the implementation of OPH electronic health records and meaningful use activities
Work with LDH IT to assure appropriate technology resources (hardware/software) for data staff
Work with agency and program leadership to prioritize the data that should be available to the public
Develop strategies to "liberate" public health knowledge gained from analytics when appropriate and to making "public use" datasets available
For Providers - Louisiana Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database
Learn more
For the Public - Health Report Card
Learn more
Request Public Health Data
Learn more
Leadership
Lee Mendoza, PhD
Director
Nell Wilson
Operations Manager
Daniella Wilson
Clinical System Support Manager
Arun Adhikari, PhD
Business Intelligence Manager
Contact
Get in touch with BHI
225-342-4901
News & Resources
News
Apr 22, 2026
LDH confirms measles case in Region 1
Mar 16, 2026
OPH Bureau of Engineering Services launches new public records information management system
Feb 04, 2026
LDH expands the Louisiana Carrot Initiative to East Baton Rouge and Orleans parishes
More News
Quick Links
American Community Survey
CDC Wonder
Community Commons
Health Care Cost and Utilization Project
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Census Data
Surgeon General
Evelyn Griffin, MD
Secretary
Bruce D. Greenstein
Powered by
Cicero Government