Tag: governance

  • The DC Community Resource Information Exchange: Phase One Report

    The DC Community Resource Information Exchange: Phase One Report

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    David Poms
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    The District of Columbia’s community of health, human, and social service providers are struggling with a familiar challenge: they want to be able to more effectively coordinate care among their patients and clients, yet their systems can’t currently ‘talk’ to each other. In response to this issue, DC’s Department of Health Care Finance (DHCF) initiated…

  • Sunlight Foundation on local governments and the opening of social service data

    Sunlight Foundation on local governments and the opening of social service data

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    Becca Warner
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    Allegheny County’s Department of Human Services has long been known as one of the most innovative government agencies of its kind: their data infrastructure famously enables sharing of client information across a complex array of programs and powers analytic capabilities. As Ian Mavero started his role as their Chief Technology Officer, he took on the…

  • Open Referral receives fiscal sponsorship from Aspiration

    Open Referral receives fiscal sponsorship from Aspiration

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    Greg Bloom
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    Happy new year! In celebration, I’m excited to share news about a big milestone in the evolution of the Open Referral Initiative: Open Referral is now fiscally sponsored by Aspiration, a 501c3 organization that provides facilitation and capacity-building support to nonprofit technology initiatives. Continue reading →

  • Deep Dive into version 1.0

    Deep Dive into version 1.0

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    Greg Bloom
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    Earlier this month, we published version 1.0 of the Human Service Data Specification (HSDS). Let’s take a deeper dive into it. What is the Human Service Data Specification (HSDS)? The HSDS is a format for data exchange, specifically designed to enable the publication of machine-readable data about health, human, and social services that are available…

  • Toward Seamless Information & Referral: A Polycentric Experiment

    Toward Seamless Information & Referral: A Polycentric Experiment

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    Derek Coursen
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    By Derek Coursen, Adjunct Faculty, NYU Wagner School of Public Service Multiple levels of government and a myriad of nonprofit organizations offer an ever-changing array of specialized services to people who need them. But who directs traffic through all that complexity? The work of connecting people to services is known as information and referral. It’s a…