§242u Improving State, Local, and Tribal Information Sharing

Summary

Allows the Secretary, with State, local, and Tribal public health officials, to improve access to and sharing of public health data about communicable diseases between the CDC, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and those officials. It may include data from health care providers and facilities, public health and clinical labs, health information exchanges or networks, and State, local, and Tribal health departments. The Secretary must work with officials and stakeholders on what data to collect, how to format it, and how to share it, including removing personal identifiers when appropriate. These formats must follow the standards the Secretary adopted under section 300jj–14. The Secretary must also try to limit reports to only the minimum data needed. The CDC Director may keep data gathered here from public disclosure under FOIA if the data identifies someone, or if there is at least a very small risk, by current scientific or statistical methods, that the information combined with other sources or technology could reveal a person’s identity.