A team from Wharton’s MBA for Executives class of 2012, featuring Ai Principal Mrinal Bhasker, has won the Michelson Grand Prize of the 2012 Wharton Business Plan Competition (BPC). Their evidence-based healthcare decision support tool identifies, during the admissions process, what patients are at high-risk for readmission.

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski has been named in Time magazine's 2012 Top 100 Most Influential People List, which will appear on newstands on Thursday, May 19. UMBC's Research Park is home to Audacious Inquiry headquarters.

Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), in partnership with The Abell Foundation and Chesapeake Regional Information Systems for Our Patients (CRISP), will be launching Maryland’s Health Data Innovation Contest on March 20th. The contest seeks practical ideas for creative use of data to improve the health status of Maryland residents.

Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), in partnership with The Abell Foundation and Chesapeake Regional Information Systems for Our Patients (CRISP), will be launching Maryland’s Health Data Innovation Contest on March 20th. The contest seeks practical ideas for creative use of data to improve the health status of Maryland residents.

State and federal health leaders including Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Chief Farzad Mostashari, and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein gathered at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring on February 17 to announce that all of Maryland's 46 acute care hospitals and two specialty hospitals are now connected to CRISP and exchanging data. The Washington Post quotes Scott Afzal, Ai principal and CRISP program director, explaining that all Maryland hospitals will soon be sharing more detailed clinical data in addition to the basic demographic data currently being exchanged.

We’ve all chuckled about the recent commercial that the advertising geniuses have come up with for Staples, the office supply giant. You know the "Dave?", "David?", "Hi Dave", "Mr. Dave" commercial. Well there’s a kernel of truth behind this humorous exchange, and not only within large organizations. Many health information exchanges these days are facing the same challenge—they’re having a hard time finding who, exactly, this Dave person is.

We’ve all chuckled about the recent commercial that the advertising geniuses have come up with for Staples, the office supply giant. You know the "Dave?", "David?", "Hi Dave", "Mr. Dave" commercial. Well there’s a kernel of truth behind this humorous exchange, and not only within large organizations. Many health information exchanges these days are facing the same challenge—they’re having a hard time finding who, exactly, this Dave person is.

The new U.S. Geological Survey Energy Resources Program website designed by Audacious Inquiry is now live, making information about USGS research on energy resources more accessible and user-friendly than ever.

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.

An article in this morning's Wall Street Journal points out that many services firms, from consultancies to ad agencies to law firms, are resorting to performance-based compensation models as a way of differentiating themselves in the currently brutal business environment.

On Wednesday, July 8th, 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.

While Americans bought almost $130 billion worth of goods and services from online retailers like Amazon, that figure still comprises only about four percent of the nation's retail sales. 

A number of innovators, though, are finding other compelling ways to monetize internet ventures.

According to Charlene Yi, in Groundswell, recommended to me and AI by a friend, Wally Boston, the need for more and new ’Web 2.0’ platforms built to serve the older American demographic is questionable.  With the wave of Boomer retirement still far from over - and online habits of the segment far from established - how can this be so?

A team from Wharton’s MBA for Executives class of 2012, featuring Ai Principal Mrinal Bhasker, has won the Michelson Grand Prize of the 2012 Wharton Business Plan Competition (BPC). Their evidence-based healthcare decision support tool identifies, during the admissions process, what patients are at high-risk for readmission.

Ai's latest stakeholder report is available for download.

We’ve all chuckled about the recent commercial that the advertising geniuses have come up with for Staples, the office supply giant. You know the "Dave?", "David?", "Hi Dave", "Mr. Dave" commercial. Well there’s a kernel of truth behind this humorous exchange, and not only within large organizations. Many health information exchanges these days are facing the same challenge—they’re having a hard time finding who, exactly, this Dave person is.