On Nov 17 Audacious Inquiry was presented with the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Bridging the Gap Award for outstanding achievement by a minority-owned company. Ai, a Hispanic-owned business, was chosen for its achievements and contribution to advancing healthcare IT in Maryland and across the country.

Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) has announced that as of September 22nd, half of all of Maryland’s 46 hospitals are live and exchanging data electronically on the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). Additionally, CRISP announced that several primary care physician offices in the state, assisted by the CRISP Regional Extension Center (REC) program, have achieved "meaningful use" certification.

Audacious Inquiry’s founder and Managing Partner, Christopher Brandt, joins host Neal Conan on NPR’s Talk of the Nation this afternoon to discuss: “Can New Federal Policies Get Employers Hiring?”

On August 3rd Audacious Inquiry’s Edmond Magny and partner organizations presented a webinar highlighting the features and benefits of the MEDS-ED Link Pilot Project, which launched at Inova Alexandria Hospital in April. The project has the goal of providing electronic access to patient medical histories in hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) and integrating with hospital ED systems. MEDS-ED brings prescription information from data sources across the US directly into the patient’s electronic health record (EHR), helping physicians provide better emergency treatment by giving them instant access to a patient’s medication history in emergency situations.

Maryland Regional Extension Center Reaches Key Milestone: Over 1,000 Providers Signed Up to Adopt Electronic Health Records.

Scott Afzal, principal and director of health information systems, has published a column on HIEs' focus on interoperability in the April 5th issue of NHINWatch.

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. Over the last several weeks, with the increased prominence of health IT generally and CRISP specifically -- for instance, CRISP leaders David Horrocks and Mark Kelemen were recently interviewed on Baltimore's WYPR public radio -- traffic to the CRISP website has risen dramatically.

The Federal Government furthers its use of Web 2.0 including blogs, social networks and virtual worlds.

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MIT professors have done some great research to show that 'net promoter score,' a popular mechanism for evaluating customer satisfaction, is correlated with profitability.

On Nov 17 Audacious Inquiry was presented with the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Bridging the Gap Award for outstanding achievement by a minority-owned company. Ai, a Hispanic-owned business, was chosen for its achievements and contribution to advancing healthcare IT in Maryland and across the country.

Audacious Inquiry is pleased to welcome two new members to our Health Information Systems practice. Together, Genevieve Morris and Dana Voss bring over 15 years of health IT and project management experience to the firm.

Today’s issue of the Baltimore Business Journal will feature an article about Audacious Inquiry’s role in a study of health insurance exchange options in Maryland. A health insurance exchange gives individuals and small businesses a marketplace to compare health plans from different insurance providers more easily.