Background Digital health solutions can provide populations with musculoskeletal pain with
high-reach, low-cost, easily accessible, and scalable patient education and self …

The adoption of health information and communication technology (HICT) has surged over
the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and …

Interoperability, or the easy, secure exchange of electronic health information (EHI), is now
vital to health care and public health functions, including disease and laboratory reporting. 1 …

Existing data sources have tremendous potential to inform public health activities. However,
a patchwork of data protection laws impede data sharing efforts. Nevertheless, a data …

Health information is created in many different healthcare contexts and is used, released,
and exchanged for many different purposes. Each use, release, and exchange of health …

Federal, state, and local laws shape the use of health information for public health purposes,
such as the mandated collection of data through electronic disease reporting systems …

Objective Research on the implementation of health information exchange (HIE)
organizations has identified both positive and negative effects of laws relating to …

Data from traditional public health surveillance systems can have some limitations, eg,
timeliness, geographic level, and amount of data accessible. Electronic health records …

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the United States' lack of a nationwide infrastructure
for collecting, sharing, and using health data, especially for secondary uses (eg, population …

Background United States data protection laws vary depending on the data type and its
context. Data projects involving social determinants of health often concern different data …