Association of Information Technology Professionals Johnstown, PA

July 29th - 6:00pm to 7:30
Presentation: Regional and State Online Resource for Emergency Management
Location: Boulevard Grill

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Regional and State Online Resource for Emergency Management (RaSOR-EM) is an online information management application that provides users with fast access to geographic, demographic, and organizational emergency management information down to the county/city level. The application empowers users with situational awareness by providing immediate access to critical emergency data at federal, state, and county jurisdictions. Its multi-tiered information structure is designed to serve responders from the unit to the command level in both times of crisis and in conducting the key planning and forecasting required at the leadership level to maintain optimum readiness levels.

April 28th - 6:00pm to 7:30
Presentation: Web-Based Case Study Development for Mobile Platforms by Michael Shanafelt, Senior Information Technology Advisor, Saint Francis University's Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas
Location: Boulevard Grill

Dues:
Non-Members: $15
Members: Free

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Over the past four years, Saint Francis University’s Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically Under-Served Areas (CERMUSA) has developed a web-based Case Study framework. The purpose of this tool is to simulate patient interactions to students in the healthcare field. Instructors and instructional designers use the framework to create simulated patient records and upload videos of doctor/patient simulation interactions.

As part of CERMUSA’s Technology Test Bed protocol, CERMUSA investigated how to replicate the Case Study from a typical desktop experience to a mobile learning experience so that students could access the course content from anywhere.

This AITP Johnstown presentation will discuss how the Case Study web application was converted to a mobile format using the iPhone User Interface (iui) framework.

March 25th - 6:00pm to 7:30
Roundtable Disscussion of HP's Quality Center Application
Location: Boulevard Grill

Dues:
Non-Members: $15
Members: Free

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February’s meeting will include an open discussion facilitated by Joyce Bailey of a healthcare corporation regarding the Quality Center Application owned by HP. This application helps manage quality information throughout the development cycle, construct and organize requirements, create and execute test sets, monitor defects and use graphs and reports to track the success of the project. Discussions will also include a topic in which User Stories are applied for Agile Software Development. Agile methods generally promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation, a leadership philosophy that encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability, a set of engineering best practices intended to allow for rapid delivery of high-quality software, and a business approach that aligns development with customer needs and company goals.

November 18th - 5:30 to 7:30
Presenter: Joe Harford and James Soltis of Reclamere
Location: Boulevard Grill

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We are pleased to have representatives from Reclamere presenting at our November 2009 meeting of AITP Johnstown. The subject of the presentation is How to Prevent Data Breaches and will assist organizations in understanding the most common sources of data breaches and the steps that can be taken to prevent, detect or mitigate risks relative to data breaches. Best practices in data breach prevention will be covered in a vendor neutral way with lots of good take away tips for organizations of all sizes.

Our Windows Launch party was covered by WJAC-TV last week.

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