Florida establishes an Infectious Disease Transportation Network The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with public health, private healthcare providers, hospitals and emergency response teams throughout the entire state, have developed the Florida Infectious Disease Transportation Network (FIDTN). The purpose of the FIDTN is to send specially trained Emergency Medical Service (EMS) units to conduct transport of highly infectious disease patients from a hospital to a local airport, a designated treatment hospital, a “change-out” location for patient transfer, or to the Regional Treatment Center in Atlanta, Georgia.