Q: Can social work staff or supervisors be included in the attendance of the Data Conversion Workgroup meeting or is the focus more specific to the actual technical conversion of the data?
A: The purpose of the Data Conversion Workgroup is to validate the data mapping and not the CARES application. It is best to have people that understand the underlying data and fields, who can best validate that the intended data is properly related to the appropriate object model in CARES. This is best suited for people who have some type of experience with data models, xTools, databases, or Entity-Relationship-Diagrams.