The Vermont Blueprint for Health, a state-sponsored program aimed at improving the quality of preventive and chronic-disease care, has signed a new contract with Covisint that will give providers and care teams statewide access to a more comprehensive and tightly integrated view of their patients' medical information at the point of care.

Through its subsidiary Docsite, Covisint already is working with the Vermont Blueprint for Health to provide a connected view of patient care. Under the new agreement, Covisint will supply a shared guideline dictionary that can be used across disparate electronic health records. The Covisint solution also can be used by community care teams and by practices that don't have an EHR.

In addition, Covisint will give participating providers the ability to view and exchange data about chronic-care patients' hospital admissions, transfers, and discharges.

The Vermont Blueprint for Health enables physicians to create and sustain patient-centered medical homes with the help of community-based care teams. All of Vermont's major private insurers support the care teams and pay primary-care physicians bonuses based on their demonstrated quality of care. The Blueprint program's three integrated care health services pilots cover 60,000 people, or about 10 percent of Vermont's population.

To learn more:
- see the Covisint press release
- view the Vermont Blueprint for Health's 2009 report

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