Vermont § 9351 - Health Information Technology Plan

§ 9351. Health Information Technology Plan

• (a)(1) The Department of Vermont Health Access, in consultation with the Department’s Health
  Information Exchange Steering Committee, shall be responsible for the overall coordination
  of Vermont’s statewide Health Information Technology Plan. The Plan shall be revised
  annually and updated comprehensively every five years to provide a strategic vision
  for clinical health information technology. (2) [Repealed.] (3)(A) The Department, in consultation with the Steering Committee, shall administer the
  Plan. (B) The Plan shall include the implementation of an integrated electronic health information
  infrastructure for the sharing of electronic health information among health care
  facilities, health care professionals, public and private payers, and patients. The
  Plan shall provide for each patient’s electronic health information that is contained
  in the Vermont Health Information Exchange to be accessible to health care facilities,
  health care professionals, and public and private payers to the extent permitted under
  federal law unless the patient has affirmatively elected not to have the patient’s
  electronic health information shared in that manner. (C) The Plan shall include standards and protocols designed to promote patient education,
  patient privacy, physician best practices, electronic connectivity to health care
  data, access to advance care planning documents, and, overall, a more efficient and
  less costly means of delivering quality health care in Vermont. (D) A representative of the Green Mountain Care Board shall be a voting member of the
  Steering Committee.