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The Office of the Auditor General has
performed audit work to address the 12 statutory Sunset Factors for the
Department of Health Services. These factors accompany a series of five
performance audit reports issued previously on the Department in 1998 and
1999: the Division of Assurance and Licensure Services (Report No. 98-17);
the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (Report No. 99-6); the Arizona
State Hospital (Report No. 99-9); the Tobacco Education and Prevention
Program (Report No. 99-17); and the Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease
Control Services (Report No. 99-18).
In conducting our audits of DHS, we repeatedly found that
the Department has inadequate information technology support for many of its
functions. In fact, many of the problems identified in our audits could be
at least partly attributed to this inadequate support. An inability to
recruit and retain qualified programmers has hampered the Division of
Information Technology Services’ ability to meet the Department’s
technology needs. In December 1998, 40 of 120 funded positions were vacant
within the Division.
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