Updated Data Quality Thresholds

The Data Quality send outs will use the updated threshold percentages that went into effect March 1st. These figures can always be found in the Data Quality Monitoring Plan on our website.

Community Performance Monitoring Tool: Now Live in HMIS

The Community Performance Monitoring Tool (PMT) is now live in HMIS! End users can view their agency's data within the dashboard in the Reports sections of their HMIS account. The data will be refreshed daily which means when viewing the Community PMT, the information should be reflective of data entered up to yesterday.

Click Path: Reports > PowerBI

Copy Assessment Fix

The Copy Assessment issue has been resolved.

The issue presented when users enrolled a family and attempted to copy over assessments while completing a workflow. Only the Head of Household data copied over and rest were not. This has been fixed and now all members copy over successfully.

New URL

On April 20th the HMIS application will have a new URL.

There will be redirects in place, so end users will not experience any disruption. Your current bookmarks and saved links will continue to work.

Updating your URL in bookmarks and any other places referenced is recommended.

The new URL will be updated on the website and will be communicated out by the HMIS team as soon as it's available.

Updates to Coordinated Entry Prioritization Postponed. New launch date:

April 15

In collaboration with researchers from Notre Dame to improve coordinated entry prioritization for individuals seeking services and to create a more person- and community-centered prioritization tool, the Alliance has been working on implementing updates to the Resource Placement Index, consisting of a new single-scoring for Homelink prioritization. The new prioritization score will be updated to a hybrid score based on the skilled assessor score and the data drive score already captured in Homelink Assessments. This update to prioritization will not change the workflow, but will be a backend calculation, that creates and prioritizes based on a single score for all individuals seeking services in our community.

There is no need to update existing clients, unless the client's data has changed since the last assessment. All individuals on the Priority Pool list on the go live date will remain unchanged and the Priority Pool list will be refreshed weekly based on the new scoring tool.

While these changes were scheduled to go live on April 1st, 2026, due to ongoing quality assurance efforts, the launch of the new scoring system has been postponed and is now anticipated for mid-April launch. This additional time will ensure the system meets performance standards prior to implementation.

We will continue to provide regular updates on progress and any revised timelines. In the meantime, training materials for the new scoring system are available at any time through the Alliance Training Portal to support preparation and onboarding.

AI & Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Never input real HMIS client data into AI systems. Entering HMIS client data into AI tools can unintentionally expose it to third-party systems, where you may lose control over how it’s stored, processed, or used.

Instead, adopt these safer practices:

• Use anonymized or fictional data when testing AI capabilities
• Remove or mask any identifying details before inputting information
• When in doubt, treat AI like a public space - if you wouldn’t say it out loud, don’t type it in