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Information Technology Milestones Worksheet

Complete the chart below. Include a minimum of 10 information technology milestones or events that impacted human services.

|Year |Milestone or Event |Impact on Human Services |
|1970 |Aber Alert |Provides an online integrated national database for missing children |
| | |Initiates a widespread alert when a child goes missing |
|1996 |Decsion Support System |Integrate every aspect of organization and human services |
| | |Help to diagnose the problem effectively and make timely solutions |
|1972 |EMR (Electronic Medical Record |Facilitate to record all information electronically with less errors and extensive |
| |System) |work loads |
|1999 |ASP (Application Service |Delivers and manages software applications and computer services from a remote data |
| |Provider) |center to multiple users. |
| | |ASPs can provide communications platforms for messaging, voicemail, IP fax, and |
| | |hosted collaboration platforms, as well as portals that offer such services as free |
| | |Web e-mail, contact management, and calendaring. |
|2001