We focus on projects with social impact. Success means people with better health, increased access to benefits to underserved communities, and better upskilling and job opportunities for disadvantaged communities.
Our areas of focus reflect our values and expertise.
Enabling access to under-served and disadvantaged communities.
Using digital services to make existing benefits services faster and more accessible.
Addressing the vast US healthcare space through federal, local and commercial projects.
Emphasis on projects that enable upward mobility in under-served communities.
We work across diverse industries and government to provide our deep expertise in digital services.
PFML was a new legislatively mandated state project that kicked off in January 2020 to provide Massachusetts residents the ability to apply for and receive payment for family and medical leave. Focus was part of the initial core team at project kickoff, and worked with our prime contracting partner (Nava PBC) and other stakeholders to staff project teams across product, engineering, DevOps and technical support.
Our staff led delivery of various critical product and engineering milestones including the payments workflow, department of revenue data processing, approval workflow integration, and core API and cloud architecture. This work required coordination across numerous department agencies and vendor teams.
Since its launch in 2021, the program has paid over $1.3 billion in leave benefits.
As part of the pandemic response, the CDC was tasked with improving how Covid test results were reported and delivered to public health agencies. A key part of that effort was the ReportStream tool, which was responsible for receiving, routing and delivering Covid test results. Since then, we’ve worked alongside our partners to augment the application to support sending and receiving any kind of test results or test orders as well as delivering this data in a wide variety of health specifications including HL7 and FHIR.
Our staff works with stakeholders to update and improve the experience and workflow when applying for unemployment insurance in New Jersey.
Supporting a commercial partner providing preventive care for medicaid patients across various states. Our client works with insurance providers to identify and treat patients with preventable hospitalization risk.
Focus provides agile software development services across various engineering and cloud infrastructure teams. We are currently supporting implementation of the next iteration of their data pipeline platform and infrastructure. Focus engineers are also building the client application that allows care providers to effectively provide preventive care using various patient data.
Our staff have experience in key engineering leadership roles on HealthCare.gov (also known as ObamaCare) and MyMedicare.gov projects. Currently supporting CMS cloud transformation projects.
This open source tool provides housing advocates and government officials with insights on the state of affordable housing in Washington, DC. The project started as a Code for DC / CNHED / Greater DC initiative. The tool overlays multiple local and national data sources on top of an interactive map with various filter toggles to better visualize the data.