Tag: API

  • Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable

    Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable

    The Sahana Software Foundation makes high quality, open source information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience. We were recently awarded a microgrant by Open Referral (using funding from Stanford’s Digital Impact program, with fiscal sponsorship from the Alliance of Information and Referral Services) to develop and deploy an open source system for…

  • Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

    Meet The Human Service Data API Protocols

    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

    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 →

  • Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

    Hacking on Link With Optimizely And Benetech

    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

    [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…

  • The Open Referral API project

    The Open Referral API project

    The Open Referral Initiative’s next chapter starts now! Open Referral has helped over a dozen community organizations find new ways to share resource directory information about the health, human, and social services available to people in need. Our Human Services Data Specification provides a common ‘machine language’ that any technology can be programmed to understand.…

  • Open Referral in Oklahoma!

    Open Referral in Oklahoma!

    This is a guest post from Aaron Bean of Asemio. Welcome, Aaron! We’re pleased to introduce the first iteration of the Oklahoma Open 2-1-1 project, which is leveraging the Ohana platform and the Open Referral format to make it easier for Oklahoma residents to find and share information about community resources that can help improve…

  • HelpSteps introduces new open source mobile app

    For over ten years, HelpSteps has been helping the people of Greater Boston find the social services they need…. Recently, HelpSteps has been working with the Open Referral initiative. By standardizing the way that social services information is stored and shared, the team has positioned itself to work more closely with related organizations. Perhaps the…

  • New Partnerships up North: Open Referral in Canada

    New Partnerships up North: Open Referral in Canada

    [UPDATE: The Ontario Non-Profit Network has posted its ‘Data Strategy,’ which specifically references the emerging partnerships described below. Check it out!] Canada is an international leader in the field of open data, especially in the non-profit sector. The Canadian Revenue Agency was the first government entity of its kind to publish open, machine-readable data about…