SURVEILLANCE, EPIDEMIOlogical,and laboratory data are essential to the practice of public health, particularly at the state and local level.1 Public health practitioners within government agencies use data to identify new cases of disease and to make decisions about when to apply public health interventions. The exchange of information between health officials
in different jurisdictions has been demonstrated to be essential to managing outbreaks of well understood diseases, such as measles,and identifying and responding to new and emerging threats, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and pandemic influenza A (H1N1). However, the very developments in information technology and health care policy that make it increasingly possible to rapidly transmit health information, such as electronic medical records and health information exchanges, continue to raise questions about the possible inappropriate use and lack of protection of personally identifiable health information.
SURVEILLANCE, EPIDEMIOlogical,and laboratory data are essential to the practice of public health, particularly at the state and local level.1 Public health practitioners within government agencies use data to identify new cases of disease and to make decisions about when to apply public health interventions. The exchange of information between health officials
in different jurisdictions has been demonstrated to be essential to managing outbreaks of well understood diseases, such as measles,and identifying and responding to new and emerging threats, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome and pandemic influenza A (H1N1). However, the very developments in information technology and health care policy that make it increasingly possible to rapidly transmit health information, such as electronic medical records and health information exchanges, continue to raise questions about the possible inappropriate use and lack of protection of personally identifiable health information.
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