Is your HMIS helping more people move toward housing?
Texas communities are doing complex, coordinated work to prevent and end homelessness. Use this practical Health Check to see whether your HMIS provides the visibility, flexibility and connected workflows your teams need.
The work is connected. Is your system?
Across Texas, outreach teams, housing providers, shelters, local governments, healthcare partners and Continuums of Care are working toward the same goal: helping people move out of homelessness and into stable housing.
But when reporting requires manual cleanup, referrals live in spreadsheets, inventory is difficult to see and data cannot move between systems, the technology underneath the work creates more distance between people, providers and resources.
That friction costs more than staff time. It can make it harder to understand where people are getting stuck, where capacity exists and where the community needs to respond differently.
Attending the Texas Conference on Ending Homelessness?
Beyond Availability: Integrating Bed and Unit Management into HMIS
Weds, Sept 23rd
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
See how Austin is working to bring detailed housing and shelter inventory into HMIS to support:
- Better matches between client needs and available resources
- Clearer visibility into utilization and resource gaps
- More connected referral management
- Less reliance on external tracking
Scott Gloden,
Bitfocus
Whitney Bright,
Austin ECHO
While you’re there, stop by the Bitfocus booth to say hello, meet the team and learn more about Clarity Human Services.
Know where your HMIS stands
After completing the Health Check, your team will have a clearer view of:
- Where manual work is reducing staff capacity
- Whether referrals and coordinated entry are fully supported
- How easily data moves across programs and partner systems
- Whether housing, shelter, bed and unit availability is visible
- How well the system supports reporting, compliance and decision-making
- Whether your HMIS can adapt as community needs change
- Which improvements should be prioritized first
Complete the short form and receive the Texas HMIS Vendor Health Check immediately.
Score your HMIS across reporting, referrals, inventory, interoperability, usability, support and scalability.
Compare results across teams and decide which gaps, workarounds or opportunities deserve attention.
Better infrastructure supports better outcomes
A modern HMIS cannot end homelessness on its own. It can give the people doing the work a clearer, more connected foundation.
The right system can help Texas communities:
- Understand who needs help and what resources are available
- See where referrals are progressing or stalling
- Match people more thoughtfully with housing and services
- Identify gaps between community needs and available inventory
- Reduce duplicate entry and disconnected workflows
- Use data to inform funding, program and policy decisions
- Give staff more time to focus on people rather than technology
Bitfocus positions Clarity Human Services around coordinated homeless services, housing and service coordination, inventory management, reporting and community-wide data.
Technology built around the work
Bitfocus is the partner behind Clarity Human Services. Its team brings deep experience in HMIS administration, homeless services and the operational realities facing CoCs and providers.
Clarity Human Services is Bitfocus’s HMIS software platform. It helps communities manage client and program information, support coordinated entry, coordinate referrals, understand housing and service availability, meet reporting requirements and evaluate system performance.
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Give your community a clearer view of what comes next
