Many information and referral services (I&R) are currently sharing data or considering data sharing with other service providers to support regional, statewide, or a special initiative between different I&R services, healthcare providers and community based organizations (CBO).
As in any partnership, there are also a number of decisions to be made. Should data be merged together as one service directory or only connected as complimentary data sets? Who will have access to the data? Who will maintain the services listed? Who will set the standards for data entry? Whose style guide will be used? How will cross-updating be handled?
DGI Can Help
- Project management and strategic planning
- Consulting services on best practices for data curation and information and referral standards
- Merge duplicate policies, processes, and procedures into new uniform documents to support the entire collaborative as one unit
- Create or update policies, processes, and procedures
- Deploy a team to apply bulk changes across the entire service directory
- Migrate resources into one database
- Identify duplicate records and deduplicate based on set rules
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