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9Public Health Surveillance: Electronic Reporting as a Point of ReferenceJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 47 (S2): 19-22. 2019.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. Health professionals can leverage these data to better anticipate and plan for the needs of communities, which is seen in the use of electronic case reporting.