Program Manager for the Regional Informatics activities at the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
"We were fortunate to have access to early copies of the model contract and those shaped the MidSouth eHealth Alliance's approach to drafting data sharing agreements. The documents served the purpose of giving us a place to start as well as means to provide education by focusing the discussion (and debate) on key issues. The model contract saved us time and money. We estimate that the model contract saved us over a hundred thousand dollars in legal fees and allowed us to execute a data sharing agreement with nine different organizations in less than 10 weeks."
Vicki is the Program Manager for the Regional Informatics activities at the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health. She focuses on governance, operations planning, security/privacy/ legal, and other policy related issues. She serves as one of the Project Management Office leaders for the MidSouth eHealth Alliance HIE project (a project funded through Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the state of Tennessee). In this role she has implemented the Connecting for Health Policy and Legal Framework and worked with the community to develop the governance structure. She provides technical assistance to other organizations iinvolved in HIE through of AHRQ's National Resource Center and on an ad hoc request basis.
Vicki trained as an industrial engineer at Georgia Tech. After several years as a management engineer at Vanderbilt, she co-led a major performance improvement initiative for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. In this capacity, she coordinated internal projects for interdepartmental improvement efforts and worked with community hospitals in the areas of performance improvement, management engineering, and information technology analysis. Returning to Nashville to work for a for-profit health system, Vicki advanced within her firm and directed activities in two consulting practices focused on benchmarking/productivity management and quality management. She directed R&D efforts to assist rural healthcare facilities with cost management strategies.
