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Vermont to evaluate its investment in health IT
EHR Connection, October 13, 2008
The state of Vermont wants to know what it will get for its money when it subsidizes the acquisition of EMRs for approximately half of its physicians in independent practices by 2011, Government Health IT reported September 9.
The state hopes its $33 million investment in health information technology (IT) will transform its health system, according to the article. Funds will come from a tax on health insurers.
The state legislature will require annual progress reports and subjective evaluations will be unacceptable, James Hester, director of the Health Care Reform Commission for the Vermont legislature, told Government Health IT.
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, the nonprofit organization formed as a public-private partnership to operate the state’s health IT programs, will evaluate the progress of participating medical practices in four categories, according to the article. They will measure use of features such as:
- E-prescribing
- Ordering laboratory tests
- Reviewing laboratory tests
- Receiving potential drug interaction alerts
Click here to read the Government Health IT article.
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