Health Care Provider access to electronic information about their patients is crucial for an effective and efficient health care system.

Vermont’s Governor Jim Douglas believes this aspect of health care is so important that he has been named co-chair of the State Alliance for e-Health, a new program of the National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices.

The Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), a public-private partnership, is charged with developing Vermont's statewide, integrated, electronic health information infrastructure for the sharing of health information among health care facilities, health care professionals, public and private payers, and patients.  The State Health Care Information Technology Plan was partially updated in October 2009 to be fully compliant with the expectations of the federal Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.  A full update will be completed by April 1, 2010.

Vermont also has established a Health Care Information Technology Fund to help finance our efforts.