This project will investigate tools that can be used to support ingestion and translation of public health meaningful use data in the HL7 formats. Open source tools, such as Mirth, have been identified as early candidates to support this function. After the necessary translations have been made, this project will investigate transfer methods to move the meaningful use data from a public health department to a cloud environment. With data available in the cloud, the project will then investigate methods for putting the ESSENCE system in a cloud environment as well. This will provide the collaborative team a platform to evaluate the utility of both the meaningful use data and potentially the value of having regional and national data sharing aspects available to the public health users. Finally, the team will determine the scalability and performance of a cloud environment for disseminating these tools to other jurisdictions across the country.