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

Kelly,

I second Abram's recommendation of biometric technology. The resources saved are worth the investment. Perhaps NJ can share specs and estimates with MARHMIS for consideration. In lieu of biometric, perhaps your system supports batch processes whereby clients with minimum profile information (enough to avoid duplication) can be entered, then using their unique ID have services posted, such as meals, in quick succession.

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:26:49 AM UTC-5, Blechertas, Kelly A. wrote:
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 kable...@yorkcountypa.gov

Thanks!

Kelly Blechertas
GIS & Information Systems Administrator 
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