[MARHMIS] RE: Tracking meals - HMIS, or, other software?

Hello Kelly,
New Jersey Collaborative implemented the Bio-Metric technology to capture services such as meals, food bags, nightly shelters stays and drop in center activities. The services can be predetermined checked from a list of options. Clients scan their finger (which cannot be lost or have to be reproduced) The system allows you to scan multiple fingers for a client in case one is not scanning during a visit. The process in NJ is set to automatically update the HMIS without human intervention every 6 hours. We would recommend Biometric because of the limited hardware need and the flexibility of using finger scans and  Facial or iris recognition alone or in concert with each other.
The agency’s cost for implementing Bio-Metric would be recouped 100 times over with the  savings in reduced data entry hours and improved data quality on the HMIS. Another cost savings is freeing  up worker to perform other task.  

Here is the link to our online videos where you could watch the Bio-Metric presentation.

Abram Hillson
Director of HMIS
New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency
P.O Box 18550
Trenton, New Jersey 08650-2085
Phone: 609-278-7567
Fax: 609-278-4173



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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 10:26 AM
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Subject: [MARHMIS] Tracking meals - HMIS, or, other software?

Hi everyone,

This might be slightly off-topic (or, maybe not!) but I have a faith-based organization looking for help finding a fast and efficient way to track the clients they serve meals to at their daily hot meal program. Some of these clients are in their housing programs, but some are not. We are looking at how it would work in ServicePoint, but I’d like to see if anyone else has a great recommendation for accomplishing this. This particular agency is severely understaffed and I have concerns that doing it in ServicePoint may end up being too time consuming.

Right now, they’re working off a spreadsheet of sorts. They aren’t looking for a lot of special details (we’d originally looked at scanners and cards, but that seems to be too costly for right now), but primarily would love to see a name, a picture, and the number of meals served to the individual – all in a quick enough format that someone could record it as the clients come in at mealtimes.

You can email me back privately at kablechertas@yorkcountypa.gov

Thanks!

Kelly Blechertas
GIS & Information Systems Administrator 
         
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