Improving Public Health Data Access and Exchange
This act aims to streamline the collection, exchange, and access to public health data, potentially enabling faster responses to health threats. Citizens may experience improved disease monitoring and more effective epidemic responses, while ensuring data privacy.
Key points
Establishing uniform standards for electronic reporting of health data, including lab results and vital statistics.
Facilitating data exchange between government agencies and external entities (e.g., hospitals, labs) for better public health emergency preparedness.
Enabling mandatory reporting of health data to the CDC by healthcare providers, labs, and local health departments, with confidentiality safeguards.
Creating an advisory committee to support the implementation of new data sharing rules.
Funding programs to enhance the quality of collected data, including demographic information, to better address health disparities.
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