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min read When the pandemic struck, a university s central IT organization helped develop a statewide exposure notification app, working in partnership with distributed IT, the state public health agency, and technology companies. Credit: Magic Panda / Shutterstock.com © 2020 It all began so simply. A researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) came to Chris Brown (vice president of research) and to me, Curt Carver (vice president/CIO) with the idea of developing a symptom tracker as a foundational tool for universities and organizations to proactively attack the pandemic. We were skeptical. This was in early March, well before the full impact of the pandemic was apparent. Fortunately, the researcher convinced us and other senior leaders at UAB. Those of us in the central IT organization did what we often do we negotiated contracts, spun up servers quickly at no cost to the distributed IT unit that developed the software, and helped a small technology team worki

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