
Information Blocking Rule: A New Tool to Facilitate Public Health Data Collection
Law & Policy InsightsPublic Health Information Management, Privacy and SecurityMechanisms for Advancing Public HealthThe COVID pandemic has brought into sharp focus the crucial nature of data in helping drive decision-making, directing public health interventions, focusing limited resources, and allocating precious grant dollars. The new federal Information Blocking Rule may provide local and state health departments with an additional tool to enhance collection of key public health data and overcome some of the barriers to reporting of data by health care providers and others.