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• Interoperable Standards: adopt and use electronic interoperable
technical standards for data collection and exchange;

• Information Infrastructure: modernize public health information
infrastructure and data systems;

• Advanced Analytics: pursue the use of advanced descriptive and
predictive analytic tools, including artificial intelligence and machine
learning;
• Interconnectivity: ensure that public health surveillance systems are
interconnected with other systems in the community via electronic
health information exchanges;
• Improved Access to Data Sources: pursue expanded access to electronic
health record systems and other health information systems and data
sources in the community;

• Integrating Workflows: explore improving the integration of public
health and clinical workflows to ensure that data captured in the
clinical space is rapidly identified for, and reported to public health;
• Registries: avoid the proliferation of one-off public health and clinical
registries by pursuing a new national integrated registry framework;
• New Technologies: harness new technologies such as cloud computing,
social networks, patient-generated health data, and mobile medical
devices;

• Multi-Directional Communication: establish surveillance systems that
interactively communicate back actionable information to key actors in
the health care system.

The future of public health surveillance is inextricably connected to the future of
health and health care. We continue to move away from a “sick” economy that
focuses on diseases, and into a new economy that focuses on the health and
well-being of individuals and the communities they live in. Our efforts should
be aimed at delivering the highest-quality, most-affordable personalized health
care, while at the same time addressing the social needs and determinants
of health of individuals and communities. This supports a public health
surveillance system that proactively addresses both traditional and non-
traditional public health emergencies and population health needs, using
advanced health information technology tools and resources.