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Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more… data available for research pur- poses) is to strip out all obvious identifi ers, while leaving in some information … of meeting participants. As a result, the participants did not attempt to clarify or redefi ne this boundary in the … Privacy Act (17), which is generally applicable to all U.S. government systems of records, and in other federal …