Layer 01
Geospatial
County-, ZIP-, and census-tract level views for rural, territorial, and urban communities.
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The Data Fusion Center — decision-ready insight for every partner.
Fragmented data into decision-ready insight. NHIT stitches geospatial, clinical, workforce, and social determinants data into one operational picture for federal, industry, and community partners.
Why the Data Fusion Center
Every partner sees the same operational picture.
Federal grantmakers, industry deployers, academic evaluators, and community operators cannot align if they cannot see the same map. The Data Fusion Center is the map.
Layer 02
Clinical & utilization
Aggregated, de-identified indicators from HIE, claims, and EHR partners.
Layer 03
Workforce
Community health worker density, credentialing pipelines, and INSPIRED cohort placement.
Layer 04
Social determinants
Housing, broadband, food access, transit, and open data ingested from federal and state sources.
Named partners
Built with AWS and Tyler Technologies.
NHIT's data fusion capacity is developed with cloud, data, and government-technology partners with public-sector operating experience. Every layer meets federal privacy, security, and de-identification standards before it reaches a partner dashboard.
- HIPAA-aligned governance and role-based access
- De-identification for community-facing views
- Federated ingestion — data stays in its home system where required
- Territorial and rural coverage prioritized from day one
What's fused
Federal open data — stitched into one operational picture.
Named federal datasets, ingested and geospatially aligned to communities — with room for HIE, workforce, and academic partner data on top.
CDC Social Vulnerability Index
Census-tract SVI scoring across 16 social factors.
Census Tract SNAP Participation
Nutrition-assistance participation as an SDoH signal.
DOT National Railways
Freight and passenger rail infrastructure for access modeling.
FCC Cell Towers
Broadband and cellular coverage baselines for digital-health equity.
Federally Qualified Health Centers
FQHC locations and service areas for care-access planning.
DHS Hospitals
National hospital dataset for capacity and referral analysis.
Sister Cities SDoH capstones have applied these layers to Roxbury / Back Bay (Boston — 23-year life expectancy gap), Ward 3 / Ward 8 (Washington, DC), and West Adams / View Park (Los Angeles), with MIT, George Mason, and Fort Valley State University.
Use cases
Three ways partners use the Data Fusion Center.
Federal & territorial
Grantmakers and territorial health authorities use fused views to target investment and measure outcomes across regions.
Industry deployers
Payers, providers, and vendors get a pre-competitive baseline for pilot design and expansion planning.
Community operators
Community-based organizations and CHW cooperatives see de-identified views of the populations they serve.