Vermont Information Technology Leaders

Vitl is the legislatively designated operator of the Vermont health Information exchange ("vhie"). As defined by the office of the national coordinator of health Information Technology. Electronic health Information exchange (hie) allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient's vital medical Information electronically improving the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care.the vhie receives data from, and provides data to, health care organizations throughout the state of Vermont, including primary and specialty care practices, hospitals, federally qualified health centers, laboratories, payers, and others. During fiscal year 2023, the vitl access clinical portal was queried over 130,000 times and the vhie delivered over 1.1 million lab results to the electric health record systems of Vermont health care providers. The vitl team continued focused efforts to educate health care organizations about the availability of the portal, and to onboard providers to use the tool to access comprehensive patient records. During fiscal year 2023, vitl launched the first bi-directional immunization data sharing connection between the Vermont department of health and two health care providers, allowing clinicians to query for patients' comprehensive immunization records from inside their electronic health records system. This feature, which results in more complete patient health records and more efficient workflow, will continue to be rolled out to additional providers over the next years. In addition to continuing to build connections to hospitals and practices to collect health data, vitl began work to integrate new types of data into the vhie, engaging with new types of care providers, in order to offer providers a more comprehensive picture of their patient's health. Finally, the vitl team continued efforts to educate patients about how their health data is shared by vitl, and to help them understand the choices they have around how their data is shared.