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Drexel School of Public Health Uses NetReach's cmScribe Advanced Content Management System (CMS) Software for First National Diversity Preparedness Clearinghouse
Drexel School of Public Health Uses NetReach's cmScribe Advanced Content Management System (CMS) Software for First National Diversity Preparedness Clearinghouse
Published 07-08-08
Submitted by Netreach
AMBLER, Pa., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Drexel University's School of Public Health has launched the National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities. It's the first national online database of resources focused on preparedness issues as they relate to racial/ethnic diverse populations. The fully content-managed web portal uses cmScribe's new advanced software tools designed to deliver thousands of annotated and cross-referenced resources.
Dr. Dennis P. Andrulis, associate dean for research at the Drexel University School of Public Health and the director of the school's Center for Health Equality -- who also serves as the principal investigator on the clearinghouse project -- chose NetReach as the technology partner to architect and develop the site and web database in December 2007. The project is funded as part of an initiative of the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The modern, secure and encrypted browser-based applications produced using the new tools are familiar and easy-to-use. Jonathan Purtle, Health Policy Analyst on the project said, "We were extremely impressed with how user friendly the site is to update and maintain. We've been busy making changes to the clearinghouse and adding resources since our tutorial. I can't get over how easy it is to add new resources!"
The eagerly anticipated site was designed and deployed in under five months. It offers the opportunity for the School of Public Health to bring together national, state and local resources to promote innovation, information exchange and program development across the spectrum of preparedness priorities. The website features:
- Resource management and editing
- Submittal of resources from outside parties
- Resource browsing capabilities
- Powerful search and filtering capabilities
"Our experience developing similar projects and complex data-driven applications provided us with the insight to create a system that can quickly deploy and manage applications in half the time of custom development methods," according to Stephen Bouikidis, Executive VP of NetReach, "The long term cost of ownership is significantly lower due to zero code maintenance, and the easy-to-update nature of the system."
About the National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities
The mission of the National Resource Center is to provide a central and comprehensive database of resources and an information exchange portal for individuals, communities, government, emergency personnel, first responders, health care providers, public health professionals, researchers, businesses and policymakers to advance emergency preparedness and eliminate disparities for racial and ethnic communities across all stages of an emergency event. http://www.diversitypreparedness.org/
About NetReach
Developers of cmScribe web-based content management system (CMS),
browser-based software that allows non-technical users to build and maintain highly dynamic websites. Built on the .NET 2.0 platform and is programmatically compliant with W3C and Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. cmScribe uses a generous role-based licensing scheme and is currently deployed in mid-tier applications across diverse business sectors. Information: http://www.netreach.com/330
