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Health department outlines $230M IT portfolio, mainframe carryover and governance gaps
Summary
Department officials told the committee the department's IT portfolio totals roughly $230 million for the coming biennium, with an estimated $130 million carryover for unfinished projects; staff warned the mainframe is costly and that the agency has only recently rebuilt internal IT governance following unification with state IT.
Department of Health and Human Services officials told the Appropriations Committee on Oct. 12 that the agency's information-technology budget for the next biennium will be large and that several process and governance issues need legislative and administrative attention.
Donna Ockland, chief financial officer for HHS, walked members through a departmental IT summary that consolidated contracts and maintenance costs previously managed in centralized business operations. "Out of this total, $230,000,000 for the department, $94,000,000 of that cost is for NDIT and about a hundred and 36,700,000 is for our contracted vendors," Ockland said. She added that an estimated $130 million in carryover from current projects will increase next biennium's IT budget to roughly $360 million when combined with base allocations.
Ockland highlighted the mainframe as a near-term budget driver and explained that the…
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