Collaboration and information sharing is a core component of healthcare. This was made apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic: Local, state and federal agencies, along with individual organizations, needed to track the spread of infection and share data locally, nationally and internationally. Over the past several years, the public health sector has been eager to push forward with data and infrastructure modernization projects so that they can better share critical information. Interoperability continues to be a major focus at industry conferences, where leaders of federal agencies have…