Category: Blog

  • Our 2017 Year in Review

    Our 2017 Year in Review

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    Greg Bloom
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    Happy new year! (We’re less than three weeks in, so we can still say that – right??) Open Referral’s 2017 Year in Review is available to read here, and embedded below. (See our previous year-in-review reports here in our public document gallery.) Continue reading →

  • Implementing Open Referral with Drupal and WordPress

    Implementing Open Referral with Drupal and WordPress

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    Abhijeet Chavan
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    Abhijeet Chavan is the Chief Technology Officer of Urban Insight, a digital solutions agency that produces platforms like DLAW, a Drupal-based legal aid resource platform. In this post, he describes the recent adoption of Open Referral for DLAW’s legal aid resource websites, which are in use in over a dozen states across the country. Welcome,…

  • Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

    Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

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    Greg Bloom
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    Open Referral’s Human Service Data API protocols (HSDA v1.2) are ready for use! Check out our documentation site here. Use our live developer portal here. Finally (for geeks and non-geeks): read the report on this phase of our development. And read more about this exciting new chapter below: Continue reading →

  • How Healthify Uses Open Referral Standards to Strengthen Care Coordination

    How Healthify Uses Open Referral Standards to Strengthen Care Coordination

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    Shelby Switzer
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    Welcome to Shelby Switzer, the Head of Integrations at Healthify! Healthify is a startup that helps healthcare providers address their patients’ social determinants of health. This has been cross-posted from Healthify’s blog. Data has been at the core of Healthify’s … Continue reading →

  • Maryland Open211: Learning a New Language

    Maryland Open211: Learning a New Language

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    Josh Pedersen
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    There is a great scene in the 1984 version of Footloose where the high school “punk” Wren (played by Kevin Bacon) seeks permission from the town council to hold a dance. The local Pastor (played by John Lithgow) reminds Wren, the local citizens, and the town council that a dance is fraught with evil and…

  • Socrata announces support of Open Referral for gov data

    Socrata announces support of Open Referral for gov data

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    Stuart Gano
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    This post is from Stuart Gano at Socrata. See our post on Socrata’s blog here.  When Socrata thinks about the future, we want to see government decisions driven by data on a massive scale, across departments and municipalities. And, we … Continue reading →

  • Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

    Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

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    Kin Lane
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    Open Referral went to San Francisco on Wednesday August 9th to participate in a social good hack-day at Optimizely. In collaboration with our partner Benetech, Open Referral set up as one of the social good projects that 20+ employees worked on for the day.   Overall, our team was strong in front-end web and mobile…

  • Version 1.1 of the Human Services Data API Specification

    Version 1.1 of the Human Services Data API Specification

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    Kin Lane
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    [This post is from Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, who is serving as Open Referral’s deputized Technical Lead for our OpenAPI specification project. Thanks Kin!] Version 1.1 of the Human Services Data API specification (HSDA 1.1) is now available for review and comment. This is an alpha implementation of our OpenAPI specification. It is built upon version…

  • Our Video: Open Referral in Three Minutes

    Our Video: Open Referral in Three Minutes

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    Greg Bloom
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    Open Referral is grappling with a complex, systemic issue – so we made an animated video to explain the problem and our approach to solutions in just a few minutes. Check it out here: The Open Referral Explainer from Open Referral on Vimeo. Continue reading →