Who controls the data that clients give my agency to be put into the HMIS?
Contrary to what one might assume about a large centralized data system like the HMIS, MASW does not ‘take control’ of people’s information when it is entered into the database. With regard to the personal, identifying information that clients give, quite the opposite is true. Under the rules set by the HMIS Steering Committee, clients control their own information. All clients have the right to give and revoke permission to use their personal data in the HMIS at any time. The partner agencies that receive information from their clients have a contractual responsibility with MASW to protect the confidentiality of client information; to give client information to anyone outside the HMIS only with the client’s written and specific permission; and to use the client’s information in the most effective manner possible to provide needed services and shelter.
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