Course Introduction
Week 1: Assembling Your Project Team
Your HIFIS 4 Implementation Project Team
Information Technology Support
Legal/Privacy Support
Week 2: Partner Agencies & Scope
Project Scope & Phasing
Identifying Stakeholders
Week 3: Service Providers & Clusters
Service Providers in HIFIS 4
Clusters
Week 4: Consent
Consent Forms
Consent in HIFIS
Week 5: Access to Client Files
Accessing Client Files in HIFIS 4
Week 6: Collecting Personal Information
Client Information
Bonus: Geographic Regions
Clusters in HIFIS 4
A Cluster is a HIFIS 4 term that can be defined as a sub-grouping within the HIFIS 4 database.
Each Cluster is a group of Service Providers with a shared pool of Clients.
Each Cluster contains one or more Service Providers. This Cluster of Service Providers has a shared pool of Clients. Service Providers belonging to this Cluster can see and interact with Clients in this shared pool.
However, Service Providers belonging to a Cluster are not even aware of the existence of Clients in other Clusters. That also means that Service Providers within a Cluster cannot detect the activities of Service Providers within other Clusters. There is no crossover between Clusters.
In general, the state of Clustering within a HIFIS 4 installation can be described in one of three ways:
A fully integrated system comprises of only one Cluster.
A partially integrated system comprises of at least two Clusters, and at least one of those Clusters contains at least two Service Providers.
A fully isolated system comprises of multiple Clusters, each containing only one Service Provider.