For Immediate Release September 23, 2024 Washington, DC – The National Health Information Technology (NHIT) and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRST) are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership aimed at fostering innovation and driving economic development across Puerto Rico. This collaboration will focus on key initiatives that leverage advanced data analytics…
September 10, 2015 · Washington, DC Exploring the intersection of Lifeline Reform and Health IT for underserved communities On September 10, 2015, NHIT hosted a Lifeline & Healthcare Roundtable with Congressman G.K. Butterfield and a panel of experts to explore the intersection of Lifeline Reform and Health IT for underserved communities. The event convened key…
Washington, D.C. — July 31, 2025 – The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT), in partnership with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), hosted the 2025 NHIT Legislative Summit on Capitol Hill on July 29. This bipartisan convening brought together almost 50 national leaders to address how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can…
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the injustice of inadequate access to broadband internet — a disparity known as the “Digital Divide” — and intensified calls to address persistent health disparities for rural and underserved populations exacerbated by the divide.
NHIT launched the Data Fusion Center, built on the Tyler Technologies Socrata platform that runs exclusively on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to help tackle intergovernmental data challenges and to translate social determinants of health (SDoH) data into actionable insights. The Center pulls together de-identified, aggregated, and publicly available data and tools that allow for a…
June 21, 2018 · Washington, DC Disaster Preparedness: Building an Innovative National Response Network in Underserved Communities NHIT convened a Congressional Briefing co-chaired by Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón, and Congresswoman Doris Matsui. The briefing, titled “Disaster Preparedness: Building an Innovative National Response Network in Underserved Communities – And a 21st Century Health and…
April 22, 2015 · The White House Opportunities for health equity through open data and technology The White House hosted the “Advancing Health Equity through Health IT Innovation and Collaboration” briefing on behalf of NHIT. Opening remarks came from Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Former White House Deputy Director of Public Engagement, and Dr. J. Nadine Gracia,…