Highlights

• The Point-in-Time (PiT) Count Module: reactivation of the optional brain injury question and new validation process to avoid duplicate survey numbers
• Unique identifier list: addition of columns to the export and new filter options in the module
• Improved translation: revision and updates to reflect proper French translation across HIFIS

What's Different

Application settings

• Added a mandatory star next to the “inactivity threshold” setting.
• Corrected missing French translations in the application settings.

Assessments

• Added validation messages to all assessments in HIFIS to notify users of any fields missing a response.

Clients

• Users can now delete comments entered in the comment tab Note: Comments can only be deleted by the original author or by using the HIFIS admin account. This also applies to replies
• Fixed bug causing duplicate entries of some actions in the audit log
• Using the “create and add member” short cut in the family module is properly reflected in the client’s audit log
• Fixed issues that would reset the housing status of a client to "unknown" after editing a client’s vitals

Coordinated access

• New filter options in the Coordinated Access module: geographical region, gender
• Add new data fields to the unique identifier list export: tri-morbidity, percentage of housing history completed over last 30 days, file number, date client record was created, geographic region
• The Unique Identifier List now looks at the total days homeless, as opposed to the housing status, to determine if a client is chronically homeless

Database

• HIFIS application now verifies the database version when the application starts
• New parameter for application version added to the database script. This will let HIFIS know which updates to run during installation

Family

• Fixed the missing consent drop down values when using the “create and add family member” short cut.

Financial profile

• Added a drop down to the “pay frequency” field in the financial expense form.

Group activities

• Client names now appear under the demographics tab of the group activities page.

Housing history

• Reintroduced the housing loss prevention short cut.

Housing unit

• Fixed error when attempting to add a housing maintenance record
• Aligned the "filter options" button in the housing unit module

Look-up tables

• Removed all the blank look-up tables: storage outcome, building type, relation to parent, school enroll problem, client flag, food item, parent situation, funding category, session
• Added translation for “reason housing not secured”

• Updated the service provider type: violence against women. New value: violence against women – emergency shelter
• Added a new service provider type value: “violence against women – transition house”

• Users can now add custom values to the following look-up tables on the waiting list module: waiting request status, waiting request reason

PiT Count

• Reintroduced the optional brain injury question to the PiT count survey

• HIFIS now verifies that a survey number is not already in use before saving a PiT survey entered using “data entry survey”

Programs

• Removed icons for pages users were not granted the right to.

Service provider

• Fixed loophole that let users with access to the service provider module to access the HIFIS administrator’s profile
• “Address line 1” is now mandatory when editing a service provider record

System

• Resolved irregular time out issue when using HIFIS in French.

• Fixed the trigger for 2 factor authentication to send codes to users
• Added LegacyIDs for the new service provider types values introduced in release 59.1 of HIFIS. This change will solve some known issues with data imports/exports
• Aligned HIFIS look-up values with HIFIS 3 legacyID values
• HIFIS now uses a 24-hour clock system when the application is in French.

Various factors

• Applied proper translation to “Legal – Bail” value