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This panel will summarize the collective experience of several academic healthcare provider organizations and industry partners as those organizations sought to understand and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Such measures included collecting and analyzing data corresponding to healthcare organizations, public health departments, socioeconomic indicators, and additional signals collected directly from individuals and communities. In addition, our panelists will describe their experiences when seeking to use electronic health record (EHR) derived data, given the critical role of EHRs when seeking to improve clinical care, research and inform public health decision-making. The speakers will also describe their perspective on current challenges in the data ecosystem and the technology infrastructure relevant to the COVID-19 response. Such infrastructure includes registries and clinical data networks to support population-level analyses. Finally, we will propose a specific set of strategic next steps to increase interoperability, overall organization, and efficiencies of such technologies and approaches, improve the delivery of care at the individual and population levels, and prepare for future public health emergencies.