Victoria M. Prescott, Esq.,
General Counsel and Business Development Specialist
Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Ms. Prescott is currently serving as General Counsel and Business Development Specialist for Regenstrief Institute, an international leader in medical informatics research and health information exchange. Since joining Regenstrief in 2003, she has served as project manager for Indiana Medicaid chronic disease management program; co-leader of clinical messaging project; co-leader of medication history project; has assisted on biosurveillance project for Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH); assisted in the formation and development of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, Inc.; assisted in the e-prescribing project; and currently leads the HISPC subcontract from ISDH; and assists in the clinical quality project which plans to utilize clinical data and administrative data to support pay-for-performance initiatives. She deals daily with legal issues of health information exchange, the negotiation of related contracts, and compliance with HIPAA and other laws.

Ms. Prescott is also active in health information exchange efforts at the national level. She served as subcommittee co-chair in the Markle Foundation’s Connection for Health project and also as primary author on portions of the Common Framework released earlier this year. More recently, Ms. Prescott was the Principal Investigator for the contract titled “State-Level RHIO Models and Best Practices,” which was awarded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to the American Health Information Management Association’s Foundation of Research and Education.

Ms. Prescott has more than fifteen years experience as an attorney, with an emphasis on intellectual property licensing, contract negotiation, and health law. She served as in-house counsel for public and private companies, such as Mattel Toys and Resort Condominiums International. Ms. Prescott also has broad business background, including development and implementation of business models, business process engineering, operations, software design and programming, data models and architecture, and health data standards. More recently, she founded and built Licensoft, Inc., a company specializing in the development, marketing and support of intellectual property license tracking software. She later sold the company to a New York internet corporation, and remained on as Division head for a year, after which Ms. Prescott did legal and business consulting for two years prior to joining Regenstrief, focusing her efforts in the life science and technology industries.

Ms. Prescott is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to health information exchange, policy development, entrepreneurship, and business development. She holds a law degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University School of Business. She is admitted to practice law in California and Indiana.