Data Timeliness & Data Collection Challenges

COHMIS is a care coordination system with the ability to reflect relatively real-time data, as it can be challenging for homeless service providers to enter data in a timely fashion. Many providers have limited staff capacity for data entry with others being required to enter similar information into additional databases. All of this results in back-dated data entry. The numbers associated with more recent reporting periods may be incomplete due to these data timeliness issues.

With that in mind, two identical reports pulled at different times of the year may show some differences in the data pulled.

It can also be challenging for homeless service providers to capture all of the required data elements for each person having their information entered into COHMIS. You will notice sections in the following dashboards that indicate 'Missing Data' when required values were unable to be collected. 'Missing Data' includes values of Data not collected, Client doesn't know, and Client prefers not to answer.