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Public Health Data Policy and Standards
Public health relies on getting data where it needs to go to protect health. We need to ensure the right policies, authorities, data use agreements, and relationships are in place to support modern data exchange.
Below you can learn what data authorities, policy, and interoperability standards mean to public health data.
ADVANCING INTEROPERABILITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
Coordinating how data is standardized and how it flows has a real impact on public health and beyond.
DATA MODERNIZATION AND POLICIES
Policies can have major and lasting effects on the resources and direction for modernization efforts.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND DATA AUTHORITY
Data authority will ensure that public health has the right data, in the right place, at the right time to inform decisions.