All of the below are examples of primary use of data except for one. Which is an example of secondary use of data?
A) A clinician seeing which medications a patient is using, and if any future therapies are contraindicated.
B) A public health report indicates there is a measles outbreak in a certain county.
C) An administrator sees that there had been a change in an insured's coverage.
D) The laboratory sends results to a patient's primary care provider.

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Secondary use of data refers to using data for purposes other than the primary reason it was collected. In this case, using data to report a measles outbreak is a secondary use, as the data was originally collected for individual patient care.

All of the Below Are Examples of Primary Use of Data