Philadelphia Solution Breaks New Ground
For Integrated Social Services
Benefiting caseworkers, clients and tax payers, this integrated Case Management system is a model for all large cities
Philadelphia engaged InstaKnow's award winning "No-Code Business Process Management TM" software, the same software on which ClearView-ACE is based, to integrate real-time information and automate business processes across multiple city agencies' disparate backend systems, web-based portals, and client-server systems. The software's automated intelligence capabilities greatly reduce the costly, time-consuming, and sometimes tragic problems that result from fragmented, hard to reach information and protracted manual operations. Powered by patented artificial intelligence, the portal supplies sophisticated decision support solutions without writing code and without change to existing systems.
The Problem - Lack of Integration Created Delays and Caused Wrong Decisions
Without getting an accurate and comprehensive view of a cross-agency profile of each family member eligible to receive aid, a caseworker was unable to make timely, correct decisions. Getting all relevant data from every agency would take days or weeks. Incomplete information could result in a potentially disastrous decision, e.g. reunification of a child with a parent without knowing the parent's history of mental disorder.
The Solution - Real-time Integration with Immediate Benefits to the City
The integrated process automation solution, appropriately named CARES, (Cross Agency Responsibilities for Effective Services) integrates data from the following social services and related family information systems:
| 1. Behavioral Health Special Initiative | 7. Department of Human Services |
| 2. Office of Emergency Shelter Services | 8. Office of Mental Health Services |
| 3. Case Load Management | 9. Community Health Services |
| 4. Department of Social Services | 10. Crisis Response Center |
5. Forensic Intensive Recovery System
| 11. Juvenile Justice System |
| 6. City Prison System | 12. Payment Systems |
CARES provides the Department of Social Services (DSS) an instant and comprehensive understanding of an individual (client) and the family's entire social services history, current status, eligibility, and needs. CARES advances caseworker productivity, improves responsiveness to clients, drastically cuts decision times, ensures compliance to state and federal laws and guidelines; and avoids potentially calamitous case decisions that result from misinformation, fragmented information, late information, or simply, no information.
The portal will be enhanced to include more agencies and to send automated proactive and reactive alerts when changes occur in a family or client's situation. CARES' no-code, rapid reconfiguration business agility is unmatched by any coded technology.