The public health supply chain needs to evolve to an information ecology approach for the future direction. This would involve:
a. standardizing public health supplies and suppliers.
b. being partners with others to receive, reuse, and republish data.
c. allowing public health departments to exclude data sharing to protect patient privacy.
d. allowing public health departments to include data sharing to protect patient privacy.
ANS: B
Information ecology involves the reuse and sharing of data.
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