Legal and Policy Considerations for Public Health Technology Adoption: An Exploratory Guide
July 31, 2025 | ASTHO Staff and ChangeLab Solutions Staff
A variety of modern interoperability technologies and frameworks can support public health agencies’ data access, management, and utilization. Health agencies must consider many important legal and policy factors in their search for and implementation of new technologies.
This exploratory guide, developed in collaboration with ChangeLab Solutions and with support from CDC, aims to help multidisciplinary teams identify these considerations as they assess and adopt new technologies, determine necessary agreements, and support compliance with legal requirements throughout the technology lifecycle. It incorporates information from secondary sources and input from state and territorial public health leaders during an interactive session on legal considerations for interoperability technology adoption at ASTHO’s Executive Leadership Forum and related meetings in June 2025.