FDA Chooses Box for Cloud Content Management

By Clinical Informatics News Staff

October 18, 2017
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reportedly selected Box’s cloud content management platform to modernize its technical infrastructure and drive new ways to work in the cloud. With Box, the FDA is furthering its IT innovation strategy to digitize business processes and envision new ways to engage with the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.
 
“The FDA is leading the way on how government agencies are leveraging modern technology to better engage with stakeholders and improve mission outcomes,” said Sonny Hashmi, Managing Director of Global Public Sector at Box in a press release. “FDA’s investment in a cloud strategy, including partnerships with companies such as Box, is poised to help the agency re-imagine stakeholder engagement, build digital experiences, and bring agility to mission delivery, while ensuring the privacy and security of sensitive data. We are thrilled to support the FDA mission, helping to transform the way they manage and share information.”

FDA IT leadership, tasked with modernizing its technology infrastructure and re-imagining how the FDA works with the life sciences industry, selected Box to:
 
• Improve external collaboration with third party organizations, including external experts, and supporting audits, discoveries and reviews;
• Digitize and automate processes leveraging Box as a central content portal where staff can easily collaborate and share materials internally and with external parties;
• Reduce complexity of infrastructure by eliminating fragmented content and document management tools; and
• Provide the FDA with added cybersecurity control and administrative capabilities necessary to govern and protect sensitive information at scale.
 
Box lists among its customers the Department of Justice, the District of Columbia Government, GE and Procter & Gamble. Box is FedRAMP compliant and recently received Department of Defense SRG Impact Level 4 Authorization by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Box is used by more than 76,000 organizations around the world to share, access, and collaborate securely on their most important content.