The Board of Directors of Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) announces that Beth Anderson will become President and Chief Executive Officer of VITL on December 2, 2019. She succeeds Michael K. Smith, who completed his role as interim CEO of the organization.
“I am very happy that Beth has agreed to join VITL as President and CEO,” said Dr. Bruce Bullock, Chair of the VITL Board. “Her operational experience leading change and improving the use of data in both the public and private sectors will help ensure VITL continues to deliver valuable services for the State and our other customers. Beth’s significant financial experience will help VITL meet the challenges of an evolving market in the years ahead. I know she will complement the strong team at VITL and will help them to continue to deliver improvements designed to make access to health care data easier and more impactful for Vermont’s providers, patients, and other stakeholders.”
Beth Anderson was selected after an extensive search process to select a permanent President and CEO and following Smith’s departure as interim CEO to the role of Secretary of Human Services. Smith made significant strides in streamlining VITL, improving patient matching, helping providers improve data quality, and strengthening its responsiveness to the needs of its customers in service to the State’s Health Information Exchange Strategic Plan. Anderson will help VITL solidify this progress. Specifically, she will continue VITL’s work with Vermont partners, including the Blueprint for Health, to deliver a platform for collaborative services that will incorporate higher quality data and matching with a master patient index that will significantly improve the value of VITL’s data repository to providers and patients. As CEO, Anderson will benefit from productive partnerships across all sectors of health care in Vermont, along with a dedicated leadership team and staff at VITL who have deep experience in this field.
“VITL has accomplished so much in the last few years, thanks to the leadership of Mike Smith and the tremendous efforts of VITL’s staff,” said Anderson. “I am excited to now lead VITL forward and help it continue to deliver on behalf of Vermonters. I am particularly optimistic that VITL’s role as a health care data repository for reporting and better patient care will help drive positive outcomes for Vermonters.”
Beth comes to VITL after a long and varied career. Most recently, Beth has served as the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the City of Burlington, Vermont, where she has been responsible for ensuring the effective stewardship of city assets, including developing and managing the annual operating budget and overseeing financing activities, and effective teamwork across City departments. She previously served as the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer, where she was responsible for modernizing the City’s IT platform, and creating BTVStat, a data-driven program for measuring performance and guiding continuous improvement efforts, among many other initiatives.
Beth is passionate about the role good data analysis can play in improving lives and livelihoods. She led significant improvement while serving as Director of Operations at the Committee on Temporary Shelter. As the Director of Operations and IT at Vermont Oxford Network, she was responsible for designing programs, processes, and platforms to enable the organization to best serve its members and achieve its mission to improve the quality, safety, and value of care for newborn infants through a coordinated, data-driven approach. Before coming to Vermont, Beth held positions in financial services,
including Vice President of eCommerce at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Job Manager at Oliver Wyman. Beth received an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a BA from Colgate University. She currently serves as Chair of the COTS Board and is a Board member for RunVermont. She and her family live in Burlington.
About VITL: VITL is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005 that advances health care reform efforts in Vermont through the use of health information technology, and is the legislatively-designated operator of the Vermont Health Information Exchange (VHIE). The VHIE is a secure, statewide data network which gives health care providers in Vermont the ability to electronically exchange and access medical records. VITL collects and manages patient data such as demographics, laboratory results, discharge summaries, radiology reports and medication histories, from multiple sources including hospitals, primary and specialty care, Federally Qualified Health Centers, home health, long term care, designated agencies and commercial labs. VITL also assists Vermont health care providers with adopting and using health information technology to improve quality of care while enhancing patient safety, and reducing the cost to deliver care. Check out www.vitl.net for more detailed information.