"Meaningful use" legislation in the US healthcare industry already mandates the release of certain data that helps with public health surveillance - in fact, it

"Meaningful use" legislation in the US healthcare industry already mandates the release of certain data that helps with public health surveillance - in fact, it was one of the major goals of those regulations (as well as advancing the state of healthcare tech, enabling health information exchanges and interoperability). For example, see this article which talks about how "meaningful use" legislation enables cancer surveillance via provider reporting to cancer data registries: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/meaningful_use.htm https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr/meaningful_use.htm