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Audacious Inquiry delivers innovative solutions by leveraging the technical expertise and project management skills of its team members. The following are examples of our current and past projects.
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- Health Information Systems
- Web Applications
- Analytical Services
- Government
Last Thursday, the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) hosted its first Health IT Executive Forum focusing on Federal and State Health IT Initiatives and Principles for Progressing in a Health IT-enabled Future in Maryland at its headquarters in Elkridge, Maryland.
In November 2009, American Public University System, a leading and accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, unveiled its new face on the Internet. With a competitive and rapidly evolving landscape in the online education sector, increasing complexity of APUS's business, evolving sophistication of web users, and expansion of available web communication and interaction tools, APUS faced the challenge of delivering a completely new face that reflects the sophistication, mission, and aspiration of the enterprise.
AI has relaunched the website of Powermax Gobal – a smart grid technology provider based in India with offices in U.S. Powermax’s mission is to transform energy delivery to customers in the developing market to improve efficiency and save cost.
www.powermaxglobal.com
On Wednesday, July 8th,2009 American Public University System, an accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, hosted hundreds of prospective students in a cutting-edge virtual environment. In an increasingly competitive and global marketplace for skilled workers, online education is becoming an efficient and popular way for people to build credentials, switch careers or qualify for a new job.
AI has relaunched the website of CRISP, the collaborative health information exchange planning group comprised of Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Maryland Medical System. As HIE activities move forward in Maryland, the website will serve as an informational resource for consumers and healthcare institutions alike. The site was developed using the DotNetNuke open source content management framework.
AI has launched the new website of the Gideon Hixon Fund, a venture capital fund based in Santa Barbara, California. The Gideon Hixon Fund is committed to being a great partner for its investors, co-investors and entrepreneurs. The website offers a place for visionaries with an idea that revolutionizes an industry and makes the world a better place to reach out to the Gideon Hixon Fund team.
AI has launched the new website of the Adeona Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit organization that provides support for the city's neediest children.
Brown Advisory, a growing investment management firm with offices in Baltimore, Washington, New York, Boston and London, chose AI to develop a new website that better reflected a firm of substantial size and geographic reach; it also sought a site that would be easier to administer and maintain. AI made innovative use of the DotNetNuke content management framework in executing the project. The new site was deployed in March 2009.
Audacious Inquiry developed a system for managing the quarterly performance goals of a client’s employees. This system allows the company to manage quarterly bonuses based on a combination of employees’ performances against their own goals for the quarter and the company’s performance against its stated quarterly goals.
The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) wanted to develop health information exchange (HIE) guidelines for the number of community-centered exchange currently being undertaken or planned throughout Maryland. The team of Dynamed Solutions and Audacious Inquiry was chosen to develop these policy guidelines.
There is clearly a need for a lightweight HL7 messaging engine or tool that facilitates the integration of healthcare systems and is available to the developer community for free. The AI HL7 Engine is designed to meet some of these immediate low-cost integration needs.
In the fall of 2007, Retirement Living Television (RLTV) engaged Audacious Inquiry to help to build up the audience of its online health-related content by developing a web portal devoted exclusively to healthy aging. The portal would also benefit from the strengths of RLTV’s corporate siblings, Erickson Health, one of the largest geriatric practices in the country, and the Erickson Tribune, a weekly newspaper that often publishes stories on health-related topics.
The marketing team at Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) was looking to create a more interactive experience for prospective residents interested in knowing more about life on an Erickson campus. It wished to develop a calendar for publishing events taking place on Erickson campuses on a public website. The ERC marketing team chose Audacious Inquiry to develop this web application.
Beginning in September 2005, Audacious Inquiry Senior Partner David Bell, along with his Wharton School colleague David Reibstein, began leading groups of fifty Rohm and Haas senior executives through a weeklong marketing excellence training initiative developed in collaboration with the client. Initially scheduled for a single group of senior executives, the program is still ongoing and has been implemented by Bell and Reibstein in Philadelphia, Fontainebleau, Singapore, and Shanghai.
In 2008, Audacious Inquiry partnered with Erickson Health Information Exchange, LLC, a subsidiary of the Erickson Foundation, to respond to a request from the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) for an evaluation of the viability of Management Service Organizations (MSOs) in the state of Maryland. The team was to explore the environment for MSOs providing health IT services to physicians’ practices and to compile recommendations around MSOs for Maryland.
In 2008, a large healthcare client engaged Audacious Inquiry to develop a personal health record, sometimes also known as a health record bank (HRB), to better empower consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. Audacious Inquiry led the project from discovery, through design, to deployment.
After leading a team that deployed a health information exchange between the Erickson Retirement Communities’ Charlestown and St. Agnes Hospital, Audacious Inquiry was again engaged by Erickson Retirement Communities to develop a strategy for Erickson to foster health information exchange (HIE) more broadly.
In October 2008, a large, private-sector client engaged Audacious Inquiry to evaluate its enterprise-wide integration needs. The evaluation centered on two integration engine platforms: Microsoft’s BizTalk and Healthvision’s Cloverleaf.
Audacious Inquiry, as a subcontractor to Dynamed Solutions, teamed with Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) to develop a research survey on behalf of the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) about the state’s physicians’ readiness for health information exchange (HIE). The responses gathered will ultimately help to shape the criteria for HIE efforts in the state.
AI's client, a national chain of fitness centers, has over 100,000 members distributed across the United States in major metropolitan centers including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and Atlanta. For the client, attracting, engaging, and retaining appropriate customers is critical for viability and for profitability. The client employed Audacious Inquiry to assess how it could improve these key business variables.
CRISP, a partnership among Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, University of Maryland Medical System, and MedStar Health, began with the ambitious goal of developing a plan for statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maryland. AI was selected to play a strong leadership role in the CRISP planning project.
Charlestown, in Catonsville, Maryland, is home to over 2,500 residents and is the flagship campus in the Erickson Communities network. When Charlestown residents require ambulatory or critical care, they are normally taken to St. Agnes Hospital. With the support of Erickson, the team planned and built a health information exchange (HIE) using HealthUnity’s innovative technology platform.
Audacious Inquiry developed a service that makes patients’ recent medications available to emergency departments during hospital visits. Currently, it is being piloted in a handful of ambulatory care settings in Maryland.
Early in 2007, an organization employing over 10,000 people approached Audacious Inquiry to assess an executive-level business intelligence initiative. The organization’s chief information officer believed that leadership at all levels of the enterprise could be empowered to make better decisions if they were delivered timely, mission-critical data in a simple online dashboard.
Audacious Inquiry undertook a business process modeling (BPM) and redesign project for Erickson Health, whereby a complex nursing rounds process was reengineered to improve the quality of care for many Erickson patients.
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On Monday, August 23, the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NoVaRHIO) officially launched its MEDS-ED pilot project at the Inova Alexandria Hospital. The goal of this two year pilot is to provide the Inova Alexandria Emergency Department physicians with patients’ medication histories, after their approval, to help in diagnosis and treatment.
Last Thursday, the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) hosted its first Health IT Executive Forum focusing on Federal and State Health IT Initiatives and Principles for Progressing in a Health IT-enabled Future in Maryland at its headquarters in Elkridge, Maryland.
The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) wanted to develop health information exchange (HIE) guidelines for the number of community-centered exchange currently being undertaken or planned throughout Maryland. The team of Dynamed Solutions and Audacious Inquiry was chosen to develop these policy guidelines.
There is clearly a need for a lightweight HL7 messaging engine or tool that facilitates the integration of healthcare systems and is available to the developer community for free. The AI HL7 Engine is designed to meet some of these immediate low-cost integration needs.
In 2008, Audacious Inquiry partnered with Erickson Health Information Exchange, LLC, a subsidiary of the Erickson Foundation, to respond to a request from the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) for an evaluation of the viability of Management Service Organizations (MSOs) in the state of Maryland. The team was to explore the environment for MSOs providing health IT services to physicians’ practices and to compile recommendations around MSOs for Maryland.
In 2008, a large healthcare client engaged Audacious Inquiry to develop a personal health record, sometimes also known as a health record bank (HRB), to better empower consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. Audacious Inquiry led the project from discovery, through design, to deployment.
After leading a team that deployed a health information exchange between the Erickson Retirement Communities’ Charlestown and St. Agnes Hospital, Audacious Inquiry was again engaged by Erickson Retirement Communities to develop a strategy for Erickson to foster health information exchange (HIE) more broadly.
In October 2008, a large, private-sector client engaged Audacious Inquiry to evaluate its enterprise-wide integration needs. The evaluation centered on two integration engine platforms: Microsoft’s BizTalk and Healthvision’s Cloverleaf.
Audacious Inquiry undertook a business process modeling (BPM) and redesign project for Erickson Health, whereby a complex nursing rounds process was reengineered to improve the quality of care for many Erickson patients.
Early in 2007, an organization employing over 10,000 people approached Audacious Inquiry to assess an executive-level business intelligence initiative. The organization’s chief information officer believed that leadership at all levels of the enterprise could be empowered to make better decisions if they were delivered timely, mission-critical data in a simple online dashboard.
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In November 2009, American Public University System, a leading and accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, unveiled its new face on the Internet. With a competitive and rapidly evolving landscape in the online education sector, increasing complexity of APUS's business, evolving sophistication of web users, and expansion of available web communication and interaction tools, APUS faced the challenge of delivering a completely new face that reflects the sophistication, mission, and aspiration of the enterprise.
AI has relaunched the website of Powermax Gobal – a smart grid technology provider based in India with offices in U.S. Powermax’s mission is to transform energy delivery to customers in the developing market to improve efficiency and save cost.
www.powermaxglobal.com
AI has relaunched the website of CRISP, the collaborative health information exchange planning group comprised of Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Maryland Medical System. As HIE activities move forward in Maryland, the website will serve as an informational resource for consumers and healthcare institutions alike. The site was developed using the DotNetNuke open source content management framework.
Brown Advisory, a growing investment management firm with offices in Baltimore, Washington, New York, Boston and London, chose AI to develop a new website that better reflected a firm of substantial size and geographic reach; it also sought a site that would be easier to administer and maintain. AI made innovative use of the DotNetNuke content management framework in executing the project. The new site was deployed in March 2009.
Audacious Inquiry developed a system for managing the quarterly performance goals of a client’s employees. This system allows the company to manage quarterly bonuses based on a combination of employees’ performances against their own goals for the quarter and the company’s performance against its stated quarterly goals.
The marketing team at Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) was looking to create a more interactive experience for prospective residents interested in knowing more about life on an Erickson campus. It wished to develop a calendar for publishing events taking place on Erickson campuses on a public website. The ERC marketing team chose Audacious Inquiry to develop this web application.
In 2008, a large healthcare client engaged Audacious Inquiry to develop a personal health record, sometimes also known as a health record bank (HRB), to better empower consumers to actively participate in their own healthcare. Audacious Inquiry led the project from discovery, through design, to deployment.
Early in 2007, an organization employing over 10,000 people approached Audacious Inquiry to assess an executive-level business intelligence initiative. The organization’s chief information officer believed that leadership at all levels of the enterprise could be empowered to make better decisions if they were delivered timely, mission-critical data in a simple online dashboard.
AI has launched the new website of the Adeona Foundation, a New York City-based non-profit organization that provides support for the city's neediest children.
AI has launched the new website of the Gideon Hixon Fund, a venture capital fund based in Santa Barbara, California. The Gideon Hixon Fund is committed to being a great partner for its investors, co-investors and entrepreneurs. The website offers a place for visionaries with an idea that revolutionizes an industry and makes the world a better place to reach out to the Gideon Hixon Fund team.
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On Wednesday, July 8th,2009 American Public University System, an accredited higher-education institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees online, hosted hundreds of prospective students in a cutting-edge virtual environment. In an increasingly competitive and global marketplace for skilled workers, online education is becoming an efficient and popular way for people to build credentials, switch careers or qualify for a new job.
Audacious Inquiry developed a system for managing the quarterly performance goals of a client’s employees. This system allows the company to manage quarterly bonuses based on a combination of employees’ performances against their own goals for the quarter and the company’s performance against its stated quarterly goals.
The marketing team at Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) was looking to create a more interactive experience for prospective residents interested in knowing more about life on an Erickson campus. It wished to develop a calendar for publishing events taking place on Erickson campuses on a public website. The ERC marketing team chose Audacious Inquiry to develop this web application.
Beginning in September 2005, Audacious Inquiry Senior Partner David Bell, along with his Wharton School colleague David Reibstein, began leading groups of fifty Rohm and Haas senior executives through a weeklong marketing excellence training initiative developed in collaboration with the client. Initially scheduled for a single group of senior executives, the program is still ongoing and has been implemented by Bell and Reibstein in Philadelphia, Fontainebleau, Singapore, and Shanghai.
AI's client, a national chain of fitness centers, has over 100,000 members distributed across the United States in major metropolitan centers including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and Atlanta. For the client, attracting, engaging, and retaining appropriate customers is critical for viability and for profitability. The client employed Audacious Inquiry to assess how it could improve these key business variables.
In the fall of 2007, Retirement Living Television (RLTV) engaged Audacious Inquiry to help to build up the audience of its online health-related content by developing a web portal devoted exclusively to healthy aging. The portal would also benefit from the strengths of RLTV’s corporate siblings, Erickson Health, one of the largest geriatric practices in the country, and the Erickson Tribune, a weekly newspaper that often publishes stories on health-related topics.
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The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) wanted to develop health information exchange (HIE) guidelines for the number of community-centered exchange currently being undertaken or planned throughout Maryland. The team of Dynamed Solutions and Audacious Inquiry was chosen to develop these policy guidelines.
In 2008, Audacious Inquiry partnered with Erickson Health Information Exchange, LLC, a subsidiary of the Erickson Foundation, to respond to a request from the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) for an evaluation of the viability of Management Service Organizations (MSOs) in the state of Maryland. The team was to explore the environment for MSOs providing health IT services to physicians’ practices and to compile recommendations around MSOs for Maryland.
CRISP, a partnership among Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, University of Maryland Medical System, and MedStar Health, began with the ambitious goal of developing a plan for statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maryland. AI was selected to play a strong leadership role in the CRISP planning project.
Audacious Inquiry, as a subcontractor to Dynamed Solutions, teamed with Erickson Retirement Communities (ERC) to develop a research survey on behalf of the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) about the state’s physicians’ readiness for health information exchange (HIE). The responses gathered will ultimately help to shape the criteria for HIE efforts in the state.
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