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Moving the Field Forward
Data exchange standards bring value to the information you manage, help build collaborations between agencies, honor the investments made by your donors, and reduce duplication and fraud.
Why Standards Are Important
Standards let you move information about clients and resources between different technical solutions. This means you cannot be trapped by any one vendor, you can share information between agencies even if you are not using the same technology, and you can blend data to assess outcomes, performance measures and breakthrough indicators. The question is not whether we should endorse standards, but why it has taken so long.
VisionLink Leads the Field
We were the first to publicly endorse and then implement the AIRS XML Resource Exchange Standard, and we were the first to be compliant with version 3.0. We are not only compliant, we have created a site to help others validate data files against this standard at no cost.
We also support the AIRS auto-update Taxonomy standard, to help you manage taxonomy updates from the Alliance of Information Referral Systems and InfoLine.
We authored the new Client Disaster Standard (CDS) after working with a task force sponsored by ANSI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This is an XML standard which supports exchange of client information, for which we have turned copyright over to the American Red Cross and the Coordinated Assistance Network. Other vendors already support this standard, helping to create a network of solutions well positioned to help relief agencies and their clients in times of disaster and crisis. And again, we are not only compliant, we have created online tools to help others validate data files against this standard at no cost.
VisionLink also supports other standards such as HIPAA, various solutions for accessibility and more. Contact us for more information.
Free Validation Tools
To support the development of standards across the nation, we have created two online validation tools.
Learn more about the AIRS XML Resource Exchange Standard, and test data files against the standard here.
Learn more about the CAN XML Client Exchange Standard, and test data files against the standard here.
