2008
2008 Winner Profile
California Department of Health Care Services
- Project Description: California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) deployed comprehensive encryptionfrom hard drives to laptops to data in transitto protect information about patients in state-funded healthcare programs. The encryption policy has set the standard for California state government. Since the policy was implemented, DHCS claims that although it has lost laptops it has not experienced any data breaches.
- Project type: Security
- Business Functions: Customer Service/Support, IT Operations
- Business Goal: Security or Regulatory
- CIO: $model.cio100.cioFirstName Nguyen, Acting Deputy Director & CIO
- CEO: Sandra Shewry, Director
- Headquarters: Sacramento, Calif.
- Industry: Health Care
- Revenue (2007): $37 million
- Website: www.dhcs.ca.gov
