news
- Human Services XML Development Underway!
- A work group consisting of human services data professionals has created hsxml.org to develop a standard for seamlessly share data amongst human services organizations.
- HMIS 2.8 Schema and WSDL Submitted for Approval
- The Schema and proposed messaging standard are now in the approval stage.
- HMIS 2.8 Schema Released by HUD!
- After about a year of part-time effort, this new version of the HUD Homeless Management Information System data interchange format is completed, with a proposal for messaging.
- Disaster Client Data Standard (CDS) v. 301 out
- The CDS is the only data standard in existence for client emergency services records.
- Human Services Data Synchronization Call to Action
- See attached paper.
- NIEM is the future of human services data exchange
- With the recent addition of the Family Services domain to NIEM, and plan for further expansion, NIEM looks like our best bet for achieving integrated human services delivery.
- Synthesis open source warehouse gaining features
- The Synthesis Project is completely freely licensed for anyone to take and use, raising the bar for standard human services features.
- Dept. of Health and Human Services joined the National Information Exchange Model
- This is important for the Human Services Community. Now we will all be working from the same data dictionary.
- Synthesis Human Services Open Source Data Integration Server is now a Web Service as well as an FTP/ETL tool
- it now uses the REST framework built within Pylons to wrap existing functionality
- The Ways and Means of NIEM
- "The focus of the hearing was current and future data standardization efforts designed to increase the use of technology to improve the administration of public benefit programs. NIEM is included in legislative provisions that were enacted in the 2011 Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (P.L. 112-34) and the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (P.L. 112-96). "
