The agency’s largest request is $17.8 million for a security modernization and resiliency initiative, which entails recruiting experienced IT professionals to provide centralized IT leadership across the department and the state’s 67 county health departments.
About $14 million of this funding would be used for “improving the department’s security posture when responding to future cybersecurity events” by implementing “additional cybersecurity technology solutions to augment cybersecurity measures and reinforce the department’s security infrastructure.”
The department’s other IT-related requests are:
- $8.7 million for a competitive pay adjustment to address retention and pay inequities
- $6.7 million for a five-year project to replace and modernize the department’s medical quality assurance licensing and regulatory system
- $4.9 million for Florida Planning, Accounting and Ledger Management (PALM) readiness
- $3 million to complete the implementation of the children’s medical services Early Steps administrative system
- $1.5 million to implement two services purchased from the Northwest Regional Data Center: server virtualization software and centralization of county health department IT systems
- $1.5 million for infrastructural support for the Florida Stroke Registry
- $1.4 million for Florida Cancer Data System enhancements
