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NHIT and PRST Announce Strategic Collaboration to Drive Economic Development in Puerto Rico
Contact:VARCom Solutionspr@varcom.com571-276-3109 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...
NHIT Legislative Summit 2025: Building an AI-Ready Workforce Through Bipartisan Action and Public/Private Partnerships
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...
Using the cloud to better understand and address social determinants of health
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...
Research & White Papers
In-depth research on health equity, the digital divide, and the policy infrastructure that determines outcomes for underserved communities.
Underfunded Infrastructure Impact on Health Equity
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.
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