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, public health, and others. During fiscal year 2024, the vitl access clinical portal was queried over 198,000 times and the vhie delivered over 1.2 million lab, radiology and transcribed reports to the electronic health record systems of Vermont health care providers. The vitl team continued focused efforts to educate health care organizations about how they can access patient data stewarded by vitl, and onboarded providers to use the vitl's provider portal to access comprehensive patient records. In its efforts to expand its reach and positive impact on the health of vermonters, vitl created 147 new data collection interfaces and 25 new results delivery interfaces during the year. The vitl team also began collecting new data types. The team built connections to collect data from all of Vermont's designated agencies (substance use disorder providers). In partnership with the Vermont department of health, vitl expanded collection and delivery of reportable disease messages. The team also began work to be able to ingest data related to the social drivers of 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.