State mulls options if VITL fix doesn’t work

Mike Smith is the interim CEO of Vermont Information Technology Leaders, or VITL. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
Even as officials try to fix Vermont’s troubled health information exchange, they’ve come up with a plan for what to do if those efforts don’t work out.
A new report presents six options that state officials or Vermont Information Technology Leaders, which operates the patient-record database, could pursue if they are unable to meet reform mandates from the Le