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Client: DC Child and Family Services Agency
Industry: Public Sector
Products and Services:
Microsoft Power Platform
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Azure Cloud
Location: Washington, DC
The DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) is the primary public child welfare agency in the District of Columbia, entrusted with the crucial responsibility of safeguarding child victims and those vulnerable to abuse and neglect, while also providing vital assistance to their families. As a dedicated agency, CFSA is committed to ensuring the well-being and safety of children in the community, working diligently to prevent harm, intervene in cases of maltreatment, and support families in need.
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the inefficiencies ca used by manual forms and systems in place for the public to apply for assistance and essential child welfare services. The agency knew that to provide the best possible support to children and families, it needed to modernize its processes and make the application processes efficient and accessible online and mobile. More specifically, the agency wanted to make it easier to administer a subsidy program that gives financial aid to grandparents and close relatives caring for minor children whose parents cannot care for them.
CFSA partnered with Quisitive and collaboratively, they undertook a tight seven-month transformative project to introduce a Kinship Navigator platform to streamline child welfare subsidy application processes, optimize accessibility, and bolster support for DC’s community. The Quisitive team worked closely with the Agency to create a public-facing portal and mobile app to process subsidy applications. The result has been a transformation is how the public and staff process and track applications, and has resulted in more families gaining access to essential financial aid that helps to keep children safe and with their families.
Through close collaboration with CFSA, Quisitive’s team conducted extensive discovery and research, pinpointing pain points in existing workflows and strategically devising automated processes for a comprehensive and user-friendly public website and application. Leveraging Microsoft’s Power Platform Power Pages, Dynamics 365, and Azure Cloud, as the core technology stack, Quisitive was able to develop an intuitive website and mobile application that allows families to submit applications, upload documents, and track important information they need to receive essential services and financial aid.
“Our experience with Quisitive was great. We were under a very tight deadline they brought a team together with different skills across user experience, software development, and mobile development. It is amazing how much work we got done in a short timeframe and produced an excellent product.”
Issa Barkett, Project Manager, CFSA
“When designing the Kinship Navigator platform, we needed to ensure that grandparents and close relatives could access the app and web portal easily. We used a user-centered design to ensure the platform was simple to use and could help these families navigate this process as easily as possible.”
Mark Nagao, Power Platform Solution Architect, Quisitive
Since the rollout of the Kinship Navigator program, CFSA has experience a drastic uptake of applications for social services. Close to 8,000 families have accessed and used the app and website.
“The Kinship Navigator app helps us to achieve our mission of keeping families together. Any delays in families trying to access services could mean that a child is separated and ends up in foster care and this application solves that.”
Robert L. Matthews, Agency Director, CFSA
Quisitive’s indispensable role in revolutionizing child welfare services in DC has left an enduring positive impact on vulnerable children and families, reinforcing the power of technology in fostering positive change and social well-being.
“We loved developing this solution with CFSA. Knowing that this technology impacts people’s lives and helps make their situations better is very rewarding, and is why we do what we do.”
Mark Nagao, Power Platform Solution Architect, Quisitive
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Business automation is changing how organizations operate – and that is especially true for state and local governments. There is more pressure than ever before to deliver better levels of service for citizens while optimizing their utility of time, money, and resources.
In this free series, our solution experts explore a variety of ways you can start using Microsoft’s Power Platform and Quisitive MazikCare and PowerGov today to automate with low/no-code application development and do more with less.
Accelerating Digital Innovation in Public Service for 15 Years
We assist governments in reimagining what is next. For the first time in history, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and nearly 70% of people will live in cities by 2050. This ongoing migration creates unprecedented opportunities and intensifies problems such as aging infrastructure, public health and safety hazards, pollution, crime, and traffic. Our PowerGov and MazikCare solutions help you to serve your community more efficiently.
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Client: Arthur Health
Industry: Healthcare Provider
Products and Services: Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Quisitive MazikCare
Country: Canada
For full customer story visit the Microsoft website here.
Arthur Health, a healthcare solutions company based in Canada, is reimagining traditionally compartmentalized models of care through a clinically integrated network approach. In 2019, Arthur Health teamed up with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and University Health Network to scale a rapid-access clinic model of care for low-back pain. In a pilot, this led to sustained reduced wait times, better access to local care, and higher patient and provider satisfaction, so Arthur Health plans to expand it. Arthur Health used Microsoft partner Quisitive’s MazikCare platform and Microsoft technologies to develop a patient-centered solution that the company hopes will spark changes to primary and specialty care in Canada.
Ontario is a large province, and Arthur Health knew that empowering patients in rural, northern, and remote communities to receive the right care closer to home would require a robust digital healthcare solution. To create an integrated, cloud-based healthcare network that houses and shares information, Arthur Health needed technology that was user-friendly, flexible, and scalable. “We needed to choose a solution that was extensible, agile, and provides the highest level of security for handling patient information, so that was the attraction to Microsoft,” says Dr. Christian Veillette, Chief Technology Officer of Arthur Health.
As Arthur Health began exploring solutions to evolve a clinically integrated network, it was introduced to Microsoft partner Quisitive, a company with extensive experience in both Microsoft cloud solutions and the healthcare industry. “We approached Microsoft with our vision, and it directed us to Quisitive,” says Dr. Nizar Mahomed, CEO of Arthur Health. “The company’s depth of understanding of the Microsoft universe and of healthcare complexities would allow us to achieve our vision of an evolving model of care and care delivery, and its MazikCare platform allowed us to innovate faster.”
The Arthur Health team moved quickly to enhance its digital health platform. It drew on Quisitive’s experience to develop a care-coordination platform based on Microsoft Power Platform and Quisitive’s MazikCare in only nine months. The team configured standardized complex-care assessments for providers in the network as well as customized workflows. Communication among medical providers all over Ontario is a central piece of the new system, and Arthur Health created this critical element using the communication and automation capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365. “At the end of the day, you need a process to integrate care because the providers are geographically dispersed,” says Dr. Rampersaud.
Arthur Health then began work on the final puzzle piece: an e-referral service that would allow medical providers to quickly send patient referrals and information. It typically takes about one year to develop and deploy an e-referral service in the Canadian healthcare system, but Arthur Health activated its service in only three months, in part through using the security frameworks in Microsoft solutions, fast healthcare interoperability resources, and MazikCare DataFusion.
The rapid-access clinic model of care was adapted from the successful pilot that ran for five years in metropolitan, urban, and rural and northern healthcare settings. Using an interprofessional shared care model for LBP management that linked primary to tertiary care, the pilot demonstrated immediate improvement in access to care. The average wait time for participants to have a specialized LBP assessment and individualized management plan plummeted from between six and 12 months to two to four weeks—a decrease often of around 80 percent. Many people who would previously have waited in pain and with reduced mobility to see a specialist instead found care closer to home with a physiotherapist or chiropractor supported by a regional centralized specialist. Patients gained unparalleled access to specialized care and payers realized immediate cost savings from a reduction in unnecessary tests such as MRI scans.
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) approved expanding the pilot to serve the provincial population of more than 10 million adults. Arthur Health’s partnership with MOHLTC and University Health Network helped create meaningful change for patients and providers through the company’s growing clinically integrated network digital platform. “At scale, satisfaction rates for both patients and physicians have remained greater than 90 percent, according to our surveys,” says Dr. Rampersaud. “The provincial program has happier patients and happier providers, and it has significantly reduced unnecessary MRIs, emergency visits, and specialist referrals to deliver a return on the investment from the Ontario Ministry of Health.”
Arthur Health is excited by the potential for further growth and is eager to expand its clinically integrated network platform beyond specialty care. More than 8,000 primary care providers are using this program to refer patients throughout Ontario, demonstrating that patient-centered care delivers better outcomes closer to home. Dr. Veillette sees the next step as incorporating more features of Dynamics 365 to help providers communicate seamlessly and close the circle of care around individual patients. The physicians at Arthur Health are also excited to explore using predictive models as Microsoft further develops its AI capabilities.
“The next step will be predictive health management through analysis,” says Dr. Mahomed. “With the capabilities that Microsoft is building out, five years from now this program will be much smarter and more efficient.”
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Business automation is changing how organizations operate – and that is especially true in the healthcare industry. There is more pressure than ever before for providers to deliver better levels of service for patients while optimizing the use of the time and money they have.
In this free series, our healthcare solution experts explore a variety of ways you can start using Microsoft’s Power Platform and Quisitive MazikCare today to automate with low/no-code application development and do more with less.
Microsoft’s Power Platform is one of the latest and greatest app development programs, improving operations by automating business processes with low-code, no-code solutions. Did you know that Microsoft’s Power Platform isn’t just for IT? It offers easy scalable low/no-code application development for any department or business need. In the past few years, this platform has grown from thousands to millions of active users globally as more and more businesses realize the power behind this easy-to-use platform that helps analyze data, automate processes and build apps that can be as efficient as customized applications.
In this Power Up with Power Platform video, Timothy Cone, Quisitive’s Global Director of Modern Work and Elizabeth Brown, Quisitive’s Business Solutions Consultant, cover four specific and transformative examples of how to use the Power Platform to boost productivity throughout your organization.
This was a critical, strategic project for a healthcare company. The company optimized its discharge and bed management by using Canvas and Model Driven apps available through Power apps.
The use of the Canvas app eased the sourcing of ideas in a manufacturing organization with the hopes of creating new innovative health and safety solutions.
The finance department in this company saved hours upon hours with the use of Power Apps and Power Automate. Went from using Excel sheets to an automated process.
A company created standardized email templates and communications to guarantee accurate communication inside and outside the organization.
These are just a few examples of the transformation the Power Platform can have in your business and departmental operations.
The Power Platform is suitable for all categories of apps, but not all apps are created equal. When starting with a new app or solution, our first recommendation: make sure that you classify which apps are the best option for your needs and come up with a strategy before you start building your modern workplace.
Click below to ask your Power Platform questions or if you’d like to dive more deeply into some of the topics covered in the blog.
This Power Automate video is a step-by-step tutorial on how to track column changes (version history) for SharePoint by using “when an item is modified trigger” in flow. We can track to see the column changes for the modified item, leverage the send an http SharePoint action to get previous values of item based on previous version & also leverage the “Get changes for an item or file” action to get the information of which columns have changed.
The video will showcase some interesting patterns to get the “Version History”. Video will have something for everyone from beginners to advanced users. Trying the CRAWL, WALK, RUN & SPRINT techniques in this video.
✅ When an item is modified trigger in flow
✅ Add trigger conditions in Power Automate
✅ Get SharePoint column changes based on Version Number in flow
✅ Get previous column values using versions SharePoint REST API
✅ Create HTML data with column change information
✅ Send email notification of SharePoint column changes tracked
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00:00 – Introduction to Track SharePoint column changes in flow
00:41 – Run a flow when SharePoint item is modified
04:18 – Run flow based on trigger conditions when column is modified in SharePoint
10:00 – Track changes & Version History when SharePoint item is modified
28:30 – Send column changes information in HTML Format in Email
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This video is a beginner’s guide to Solutions in Power Platform. I will provide an Overview of Solutions, cover concepts of building Power Apps and Power Automate flows inside solutions, bring your existing App & flows in solutions, export & import Solutions, setup Environment Variables, connect to SharePoint & Dataverse, Managed and Unmanaged Solutions, Solution Publisher, discuss how Environments & Solutions are linked, perform application lifecycle management (ALM) & move solutions across development, test (QA) and production environments & more.
Solutions are used to transport apps and components from one environment to another or to apply a set of customizations to existing apps. A solution can contain one or more apps as well as other components such as site maps, tables, processes, web resources, choices, flows, and more.
Solutions are the mechanism for implementing application lifecycle management (ALM) in Power Apps and other Power Platform products, such as Power Automate.
