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Homelessness & Health Care

Data Exchange

To provide effective help to people experiencing homelessness, different systems and partners need to be able to share data seamlessly. Data exchange enables better coordination between sectors to meet patient or client needs. Different cross-sector partnerships have found creative solutions to common data sharing challenges, such as privacy issues and interoperability.

How to Share Data: A Practical Guide for Health and Homeless Systems of Care

Homelessness & Health Care, Data Exchange

This practical guide is intended to serve as a tool for communities at any stage of engagement in cross-sector data sharing between health and homeless systems of care. It is designed to help communities ready to start such efforts for the first time, as well as those that have room to grow their data sharing efforts.

Breaking Down Silos: How to Share Data to Improve the Health of People Experiencing Homelessness

Homelessness & Health Care, Data Exchange

With more than 150,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given day, purposeful collaboration between the housing and health care sectors are critical. This report focuses on ways in which the two systems are sharing data to better coordinate and support clients' needs.

In Humboldt, the Community Works Together to Tackle Homelessness

Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Data Exchange, Homelessness & Health Care

How an electronic records system made life better for people experiencing homelessness in Humboldt County and for the social service and health care workers helping them.