Service Results for Health Data

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (CDC Tracking) is a premier online resource for environmental health information. It will improve our nation’s understanding of how the environment affects peoples’ health, making our communities safer. At the national level, CDC Tracking partners extensively with other states, agencies, organizations and U.S. universities. The CDC and Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) entered into a cooperative agreement in 2009, renewed in 2014, to establish an Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHT) in Louisiana.

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.

The Bureau of Health Informatics has partnered with Environmental Public Health Tracking to create and launch a self-service data portal for Louisiana residents looking for information on health concerns and conditions in the state. The portal reflects the vision and core values of OPH: to demonstrate transparency by making quality health data available and to employ and promote science-based best practices towards continuous improvement.

Tracking Adult Obesity in Louisiana

Tracking Asthma in Louisiana

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state-level data from non-institutionalized U.S. adult residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. Coordinated by the CDC and administered annually by each state.

Tracking Birth Outcomes in Louisiana

Tracking Cancer in Louisiana

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a tasteless, odorless and colorless gas. Carbon monoxide is present when fuel is burned in engines, furnaces and open fires. Fuels that can produce CO when burned include gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil and methane. Breathing high levels of CO causes CO poisoning, which can cause severe illness or even death is just minutes. For this reason, CO is often referred to as an invisible killer.

The Bureau of Health Informatics operates the State Center for Health Statistics in coordination with the Office of the State Registrar and Vital Records. Health status data is collected on Louisiana's vital event certificates of Live Birth, Spontaneous Fetal Death (stillbirth), Induced Termination of Pregnancy (induced abortion), Death, Marriage, and Divorce.