VITL announces 2013 summit; focus on data-driven health care reform

Data-driven health care reform is the focus of this year’s Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) Summit ‘13 conference on Tuesday, September 24 from 8:30 am until 3:30 pm at the Sheraton Burlington on 870 Williston Road in Burlington. The Summit is open to VITL member organizations and health care professionals from across Vermont.
The Summit will feature remarks by Green Mountain Care Board Chairman Al Gobeille as well as various breakout sessions during the one day event, including a presentation on Meaningful Use by Paul Klintworth with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The ONC is under the auspices of the United States Department of Health and Human Services which is the entity responsible for building an electronic National Health Information Network.
‘Health information exchange networks, electronic health records and clinical decision support tools are changing the way health care services are being delivered and VITL Summit ‘13 will examine the data-driven health care reform underway throughout the state of Vermont as well as at the national and global levels,’ said John K. Evans, president and CEO, VITL. ‘The VITL Summit provides an opportunity for Vermont’s health care community to come together to discuss best practices, lessons learned, the state of health information technology and health information exchange.’
Topics for the breakout sessions include presentations and discussions on the status of Vermont’s health information network (the VHIE), VITL Access (provider portal) and patient consent, clinical decision support, accountable care organizations, the Blueprint for Health, patient portals and mobile applications among others.
The keynote speech will be delivered by Paul Biondich, MD, MS, a medical informatics researcher and pediatrician whose research interests include informatics interventions in resource constrained environments, decision support systems, and controlled medical vocabularies.
Dr. Biondich is the co-founder and project lead of OpenMRS, an open source community responsible for developing a medical record system platform to support underserved populations, which is currently deployed in over 40 countries throughout the world. Dr. Biondich also holds a research position at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute.
Exhibits featuring the latest health information products and services will be on display. To view the Summit agenda as well as to register, please visit www.vitlsummit.net.
About VITL
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a non-profit organization that assists Vermont health care providers statewide with adopting and using health information technology to improve the quality of care delivery as well as to enhance patient safety and outcomes. Comprised of a collaborative group of stakeholders including health plans, hospitals, physicians, other health care providers, state government, employers, and consumers, VITL is the designated health information exchange (HIE) for the state of Vermont and also the state’s federally-designated regional extension center. For more information, please visit www.vitl.net.