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HUD Releases Proposed HMIS Rule Changes

Posted by: mwaddoups on 12/21/2011

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Organizational Best Practices

On Dec 9^th 2011, HUD released a “proposed rule” for Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) requirements. In general, this proposed rule seeks to solidify the role of the Lead Agency within a Continuum of Care (CoC), outline the regulations surrounding how an HMIS is administered and formalize data management policies between the Covered Homeless Organizations (CHO) and the Lead Agency within a Continuum. Many of you are already practicing these policies within your own CoCs but these regulations will officially formalize these policies and procedures.

As part of the final stages of regulation change, HUD typically releases a “proposed rule” to solicit input and feedback from the public. This proposed rule is available for comments until February 7^th 2010. This allows organizations to help influence and shape these proposed changes before they are finalized. We highly encourage you to go to www.regulations.gov website and submit your comments by doing the following:

Go to www.regulations.gov
Under “Select Document Type” choose “Proposed Rule”
Under the “Enter Keyword or ID” field type in “HMIS Requirements Proposed Rule” and click on the “Submit” button
Once you have received the search results, scroll down the page to “FR-5475-P-01 Homeless Management Information Systems” and click on “Submit a Comment” at the far right of this row
Follow the instructions to submit your comment

You can find a copy of specific proposed changes listed on the HUD Resource Exchange website at http://www.hudhre.info/index.cfm?do=viewResource&ResourceID=4569

DSI has already positioned its ClientTrack solutions to address the items outlined in the proposed rule. Our flexible framework and industry knowledge allows us to quickly make any necessary changes to our products and services when new rules are published. As such, we will continue to monitor the proposed legislation and share information as it becomes available.

This proposed rule does not contain, in itself, proposed changes to the HMIS Data Standards. Such changes are expected to be proposed in subsequent documents.

If you have any questions on this or how ClientTrack is set up to handle these proposed rule changes please feel free to contact me at mwaddoups@clienttrack.com.

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HUD Releases Proposed HMIS Rule Changes

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