"Renewal Ready" Process Is Easy
The Florida Department of Health will now verify your continuing education records with CE Broker when you renew your professional license.
When you go to renew your license online, the electronic tracking system will check the records to see if you have already taken the required continuing education or not.
If your records are up-to-date, you will be allowed to renew your professional license promptly.
The process is actually automatic as you can see from this flowchart from the Florida Health website:
If the records are incomplete, the practitioner will be prompted to enter their remaining continuing education hours before proceeding with their license renewal.
To avoid any confusion, it is helpful to check with CE Broker to verify that your credit hours have all been posted correctly to your account, before you pay your dues.
While there are several types of paid accounts with CE Broker, the Free/Basic Account is all you will need as an optician to verify your status and/or amend the records.
Links for CE Broker
(Free / Basic Account is all you need)
from your desktop: http://CEBroker.com
https://www.cebroker.com/public/pb_enter_license_number.aspx?Type=BASIC_ACCOUNT_REGISTRATION
There is a handy mobile app for i-phone or android here:
http://www.ceatrenewal.com/#mobile-ce
From the FLHealthSource.gov website:
"The Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance, will now review your continuing education records in the electronic tracking system at the time of renewal. It will happen automatically when you renew your license, but it is important that you understand how this simple change will affect the way you renew your license in the future."
"If the practitioner’s continuing education records are complete, they will be able to renew their license without interruption. If the practitioner’s continuing education records are not complete, they will be prompted to enter their remaining continuing education hours before proceeding with their license renewal."
Once you have verified that you are "renewal ready", visit the
Florida Department of Health' Division of Medical Quality Assurance Services' webpage here to renew:
https://appsmqa.doh.state.fl.us/mqaservices/login.asp?mult=&pass=Y
Update: See our post here for further instructions.