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Smarter, Smoother, and More Supportive: Your June 2025 Clarity Update
Faster client check-ins, improved data import processes, easier signature collection, and more — Clarity’s getting a handful of care-enhancing updates and upgrades in June 2025. Innovation is one of our favorite words at Bitfocus (so much s...
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Smarter, Smoother, and More Supportive: Your June 2025 Clarity Update
Faster client check-ins, improved data import processes, easier signature collection, and more — Clarity’s getting a handful of care-enhancing updates...
Five Strategies for Adapting to Federal Change — Join the Conversation!
In recent months, sweeping changes to the federal government have impacted how CoCs can care for their unhoused populations. But even as workforces ha...
Building a Truly Unified Care Plan: How Your HMIS Can Help
We believe that your HMIS can be the heart of providing unified care: care where every provider in your CoC is aligned, the right information is share...
From Services to Long-Term Stability: How Your HMIS Builds the Bridge
When people experiencing homelessness connect with services, they get housed, find jobs, improve their health, and rebuild their lives. Often, outcome...
Data-Driven Compassion: Combining Human Judgment and Data Analytics for Better CoC Outcomes
Numbers tell compelling stories, but they rarely tell the whole story. While many Continuums of Care (CoCs) rely on sophisticated data systems and rep...
Shared Data Means Shared Power: A Clarity HMIS Partner Success Story
We’re always thrilled to hear about the victories of our partner communities! Today, we’re exploring how our friends in San Diego made great strides t...
Trauma-Informed Data Collection Infrastructure: Leveraging your Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) to Support Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma overwhelmingly and disproportionately impacts people experiencing homelessness. Homelessness itself represents a profound and multifaceted trau...
How to Build an Effective and Equitable Assessment Tool
Assessment tools inform one of the most important decisions your community makes: Who gets to benefit from your CoC’s limited resources? When the stak...
Optimizing Coordinated Entry With Effective HMIS Queue Management
Coordinated entry (CE) requires a great deal of collaboration. Homeless response systems are complex, and many clients receive care at multiple touchp...
Leveraging Real-Time Data to Optimize Shelter Space Management
Overnight shelters serve as more than just a quick fix for people experiencing homelessness. They're a crucial part of a community's social safety net...
Understanding the Role of Data Analytics in Homelessness Policy Evaluation
Policymakers are constantly seeking effective strategies to address the complexities of homelessness. Thankfully, harnessing the power of data analyti...
Enhancing HMIS Data Security with Role-Based Access Control
Increased efficiency, stronger security, improved compliance — these are just a few of the crucial benefits role-based access can create for your orga...
Modernizing Your Outreach Strategy: Lessons from Our New Whitepaper
What does “addressing unsheltered homelessness” mean to you? Ensuring your unhoused neighbors can access potable water? Identifying and mapping encamp...
How GIS Technology Is Revolutionizing Homeless Outreach
Visibility is the basis of meaningful outreach. If your team can’t find vulnerable people, you can’t develop sustainable and effective strategies for ...
Bitfocus Joins with DirectTrust to Enable Closed-Loop Referrals
In October 2022, Bitfocus joined DirectTrust to participate in the new Information Exchange for Human Services (IX4HS) standards development effort. I...
New Outreach Tools to Transform Your Unsheltered Homelessness Care
Within the homeless services sector, there has been an increased national focus on how to best address the challenge of unsheltered homelessness. The ...
Optimizing Client & Staff Care While Short Staffed
It’s no secret many organizations are short staffed at the moment. In the human services and nonprofit sector, staff turnover can be high—overburdenin...
SOC2 Series: Why Data Security Is Crucial for HMIS Comparable Databases
Keeping Domestic Violence (DV) Victims & Their Data Safe DV victims face additional threats when their private data is not properly secured. There...
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