Friday, October 31st, 2025
Over a decade ago, an NJIT health care startup took up a daunting challenge: to train 5,000 primary care providers in the state to adopt electronic health record systems that would allow them to better track their patients, improve their quality of care and securely share information.
The federal government, which funded the $50 million effort, had identified cumbersome and sometimes illegible paper records as one of the health care system’s principal vulnerabilities. The group, NJ-HITEC, ultimately trained 6,500 providers.