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Data move securely and seamlessly between three main actors:
But other sources
play a role, too:

Non-Traditional
Sources

Data sources from the environment,
pharmacies, schools, and prescription drug
monitoring programs supplement public health
Patients Health Care Public Health surveillance data

Electronic health records Epidemiologists (disease detectives) in state,
Patients provide health generated by health care territorial, local, and tribal departments
data when seeking providers contribute patient conduct investigations to control public Vital Records
health threats, while laboratory results
medical care medical records to the public confirm diagnoses and support rapid

health surveillance system responses. These data are shared with CDC, Detailed information is collected to keep
advancing national health protection track of the births and deaths that occur
each year

The Public Health 21 Century DESTINATION
st
Surveillance Health Protection
Health Protection

Secure, enterprise, interoperable public
SUPERHIGHW A Y health data systems rapidly and

seamlessly share data, protecting
Collected at the point of contact with health care providers, health data have a long journey Americans from public health threats of
ahead before informing public health prevention and intervention efforts. In the digital
world, this path is instantaneous and seamless—one that eschews disease-specific silos in all types—acute, chronic, and emerging
favor of enterprise-wide interoperability to provide high-quality and timely information.