Intelligence Layer
Data Fusion Center
Fragmented data into decision-ready insight — geospatial, clinical, workforce, and social determinants stitched into one operational picture for partners and communities.
Explore Data FusionSince 2008 · 18 years
For 18 years, NHIT has been building the bridge between innovation and communities.
Data, workforce, and community — connected into one system that turns AI infrastructure into real-world health impact.
- HHS OMH
- NIH · NIMHD
- HIMSS
- AWS
- Tyler Technologies
- USDA
- USVI · OHIT
- PRSTRT
Our mission
NHIT's mission is to ensure that innovation in AI, data, and digital health reaches every community — by connecting federal infrastructure, industry capacity, and community trust into one operational system.
The NHIT system
Four connected layers. One operational bridge.
Each layer solves one gap. Together they turn federal investment into measurable community outcomes.
Workforce Engine
NHIT INSPIRED™
Community-based talent pipelines for the AI-ready health economy — CHW, CHOW, apprenticeship, and fellowship tracks aligned with academic and community partners.
Explore NHIT INSPIREDScale Layer
Connected Health & Community Innovation
Proven local models, operationalized regionally and nationally — rural pilots, Puerto Rico and USVI programs, and community-governed AI deployment.
Explore CHCIIAlignment Layer
Industry Coalition
Payers, providers, vendors, and academia in one room — pre-competitive alignment that turns policy signal into deployable infrastructure.
Explore the CoalitionHow the system moves
Trust is the flywheel — every rotation compounds.
NHIT convenes federal, industry, philanthropic, and community actors into a continuous cycle: policy signal → capacity → deployment → evidence → back to policy. Each cycle earns more trust and more capacity for the next.
See how we operate18 years of results
A record built on named partners and named programs.
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Years connecting federal, industry, and community — since June 8, 2008
$14.7M
CMS-approved funding to establish the USVI Health Information Exchange (Oct 7, 2019) — NHIT was the strategic catalyst; funding was awarded directly to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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NHIT convenings on the 2026 calendar — from Capitol Hill to Puerto Rico, Baltimore, Memphis, Central Florida, and San Antonio
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Territorial and rural regions in active deployment — PR, USVI, rural Georgia
National reach
National reach — from the mainland to the U.S. Territories.
Eighteen years of listening sessions, briefings, summits, and workforce cohorts — led by NHIT, from Capitol Hill to communities across the mainland, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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U.S. Territories
Deep operating presence in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — disaster resiliency, health information exchange, and workforce.
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States + DC + Puerto Rico
Represented in the Fall 2026 NHIT INSPIRED AI Academy™ cohort — 30+ students from 20+ universities.
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2026 host jurisdictions
The Health Innovation Impact Tour and roundtables — DC, Maryland, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas.
18
Years on the ground
Since June 8, 2008 — from rural Georgia to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Fall 2026 cohort snapshot
NHIT INSPIRED™ Fall Cohort — a live cross-section of the country's future health-AI workforce.
One cohort. Fourteen states, DC, and Puerto Rico. Every student a real placement, a real project, and a real credential.
30+Students
20+Universities
14States
DCDistrict of Columbia
PRPuerto Rico
Recent achievements
Named partners. Named programs. Real deployments.
Six recent milestones — each with an accountable partner and a specific role for NHIT.
Territorial · Oct 7, 2019
NHIT Care Campaign → USVI Health Information Exchange
NHIT's Hurricane Irma and Maria recovery effort, launched in September 2017 with AWS, PwC, and Sprint, was the strategic catalyst behind HHS CMS approving $14.7 million for the U.S. Virgin Islands to establish its Health Information Exchange. The funding flowed directly to the Territory — NHIT provided the convening, federal fluency, and technical strategy that made it possible.
Partners: HHS CMS, USVI Government, AWS, PwC, Sprint
Workforce · Fall 2026
NHIT INSPIRED AI Academy™ — Fall Cohort
30+ students from 20+ universities across 14 states, DC, and Puerto Rico are building public-health AI capstones for real communities — NHIT's own national workforce pipeline.
Program: NHIT INSPIRED™
Data · Launched Feb 2021
NHIT Data Fusion Center
An operational intelligence layer unifying CDC Social Vulnerability Index, Census SNAP participation, DOT National Railways, FCC Cell Towers, FQHC, and DHS Hospitals data — powered by AWS and Tyler Technologies.
Partners: AWS, Tyler Technologies, HHS
National stage · Mar 5, 2025
INSPIRED Virginia at HIMSS 2025
Community-governed AI and public-health workforce positioned on the national health-IT stage at HIMSS 2025, with George Mason, Howard University, PRSTRT, and industry partners.
Partners: HIMSS, PRSTRT, George Mason, Howard
Rural Health · Georgia
Rural Georgia Community Health Project
Community needs assessment, CHOW activation, and a Data Fusion SDoH map for rural Georgia — with Fort Valley State University and USDA Rural Development.
Partners: Fort Valley State University, USDA Rural Development
Congressional trust · U.S. Senate
All Americans must have access to quality, affordable health care – regardless of a person's ZIP code or resources. Yet too many communities, particularly those that have historically been underserved, continue to face barriers to care. I am grateful for NHIT's work – helping to ensure communities have a voice from the start – and look forward to continuing to work together to build a health care system that serves all of our communities.
Territorial trust · U.S. Virgin Islands
NHIT understands that infrastructure without community trust is just hardware. They build both.
Since 2019, NHIT has supported the U.S. Virgin Islands Office of Health Information Technology in advancing the territory's health information exchange capabilities, in collaboration with USVI government leadership and federal partners.
Our approach
High Tech and High Touch — never one without the other.
Most tech-first efforts
- Build the platform, then look for users
- Optimize for pilots that don't scale
- Measure adoption in logins, not lives
- Treat community as a stakeholder audience
The NHIT approach
- Start with community trust — then build infrastructure
- Design for measurable, sustained deployment
- Measure in health outcomes and workforce readiness
- Treat community as co-owner and co-operator