Florida Department of Health
The Florida Department of Health spent its funds on IT consultation services, miscellaneous hardware, software maintenance and more.
The Florida Department of Health’s legislative budget request covers several tech-related items, including a five-year project to replace and modernize the department’s medical quality assurance licensing and regulatory system.
The positions are with the Department of Financial Services and the Department of Health.
The department recently issued an invitation to negotiate to replace its current licensing and regulation data system with an encrypted, role-based cloud solution.
The department, which has an estimated IT budget of $149 million, oversees 67 county health departments and is accountable to the state Legislature, the governor’s office and all residents and visitors.
This new cyber attack has disrupted the state’s ability to issue death and birth certificates, and the breach might be putting sensitive patient data at risk.
The Best of Florida Awards, announced during the Florida Digital Government Summit this week, honored several public agencies’ efforts to improve the constituent experience.
The state’s Department of Health intends to enter into a single-source procurement with Torsh, HIPPA Secure, Inc., to buy and implement a high-level professional learning platform.
In the first quarter of the year, the Florida Department of Health procured goods and services from Dell Marketing L.P., Insight Public Sector Inc., Henry Schein Inc. and more.
From July to December last year, the department purchased goods and services from ISF Inc., IBM Corporation, Dell Marketing L.P., Florida State University and more.
The department, which is tasked with protecting and improving the health of all Floridians, has an estimated annual IT budget of $120 million.
During the year’s third quarter, the Florida Department of Health purchased goods and services from SnapMedTech Inc., Abbott Laboratories and more.
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