HHSC provides oversight and administrative support for Health and Human Services, which also includes the Department of State Health Services.
FAST FACTS
Budget: The commission’s annual budget is more than $46 billion.
The agency’s IT budget is $1.7 billion, with 1,986 IT employees, former CIO Ricardo Blanco told Industry Insider — Texas in 2023; the entire agency employs more than 38,600 across the state. They serve more than 7.5 million Texans with various health, wellness and social services.
In its Fiscal Year 2026-27 legislative appropriations request, HHSC requested $2.4 billion in exceptional funding for IT-related projects.
Leadership: Cecile Erwin Young is the HHSC executive commissioner.
Sylvia Hernández Kauffman assumed the role of chief information officer in August 2024.
Kauffman will headline an Industry Insider — Texas member briefing in April.
Below are tech-related goals listed in the department’s FY 2025-2029 agency strategic plan:
- Continuously improve business strategies with optimized technology and a culture of data-driven decision-making
- Defend against cybersecurity threats to protect agency assets and citizens’ confidential data
- Expand advanced data analysis techniques to identify trends and outliers for audits, inspections, investigations and reviews
