Washington State Department of Health selects Box for Cloud Content Management

It has never been more critical for health departments across the country to be able to seamlessly collaborate on content in the fight against COVID-19. Today, we are excited to announce that Washington State Department of Health selected Box’s cloud content management platform. With Box, the Washington State Department of Health will continue to deliver the latest information when it comes to the ongoing pandemic while accelerating internal and external collaboration on critical incident response, addressing environmental health hazards in the community, licensing healthcare professionals and providing reliable health and safety information. 

Washington State Department of Health purchased Box to:

• Efficiently and securely share incident management response information between Department of Health, other state agencies, local health jurisdictions, healthcare providers and many others
• Facilitate requests for information from external entities for site reporting in the effort to achieve vaccination site preparedness and implementation throughout the state
• Accommodate sharing of large files and real-time access to information for internal and external collaborators

“We are excited to power the Washington State Department of Health in its endeavors to keep its citizens safe and healthy,” said Aaron Levie, CEO at Box. “The organization leads as an example of how our public sector can leverage the cloud to power secure collaboration and real-time access to information. We are proud to work with the Washington State Department of Health.”

Box is FedRAMP compliant and received the Department of Defense SRG Impact Level 4 Authorization by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). With today’s announcement, the HHS joins leading organizations that have moved to Box to power new ways of working, including the U.S. Department of the Air Force, USDA Forest Service and Farm Production and Conservation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Justice, and the District of Columbia Government.

Learn more about Box for Government here.