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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.

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

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…

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