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Data and Reporting
Now that HIFIS version 4.0.59 is out and has been widely adopted, several communities have come to me asking for customized By-Name Lists (or Priori…Read more
Occasionally, I get asked by someone what is the average length of stay for families (as opposed to singles) in their shelter system. On the surface…Read more
Let me ask a question: how do you calculate chronic homelessness? We know that the federal definition is 6 months in the past year or 18 months in t…Read more
At ACRE Consulting, one of the things we do a lot of is writing reports. We see a lot of different request for reports which vary in complexity from…Read more
It's almost universally agreed that family stays in HIFIS 4 are a little problematic, especially if you compare family stays in HIFIS 4 to HIFIS 3.
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Most communities considering using HIFIS 4 are not starting from scratch. The truth is, in a pre-HIFIS 4 world, communities did something to get dat…Read more
Feb 15, 2018
New HIFIS 4 Feature: Report Categories
One of the privacy issues in HIFIS 4 has been reporting. You could set up your user rights templates to be as limited as you wanted, but when it cam…Read more
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