Case Studies

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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Ai is assisting CMS and prime contractor Turning Point with the implementation and configuration of IBM Initiate software as a solution for screening providers such as physicians and medical equipment companies for the risk of fraud.
As the statewide HIE, CRISP currently receives all admit, discharge, and transfer messages in real time from every hospital in the state of Maryland. CRISP tasked Ai with developing an Encounter Notification System (ENS) to provide real time alerts in a secure manner to care coordinators and treating providers whenever one of their patients presented at a hospital in Maryland.
Audacious Inquiry is providing its services to MedStar Health in their Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology procurement and implementation. This project intends to revolutionize the data flow and availability between over a dozen clinical systems and will enable the clinicians across the enterprise to make better and more timely decisions.
INOVA Health System has engaged Audacious Inquiry to perform project management and software systems development to enable secure and reliable integration between disparate clinical systems. Specifically, the allergy integration initiative’s objective is to create a “source of truth” allergy list within Inova’s in-patient medical record system GE Centricity Enterprise, and to effectively share this information with Inova’s Emergency Department system.
Audacious Inquiry has developed an innovative mobile clinical solution that allows providers to view and enter a person's allergies, weights, heights, and problems in GE via an IPad device or any mobile device running Safari, Google Chrome, and Android.

Ai is assisting CMS and prime contractor Turning Point with the implementation and configuration of IBM Initiate software as a solution for screening providers such as physicians and medical equipment companies for the risk of fraud.
As the statewide HIE, CRISP currently receives all admit, discharge, and transfer messages in real time from every hospital in the state of Maryland. CRISP tasked Ai with developing an Encounter Notification System (ENS) to provide real time alerts in a secure manner to care coordinators and treating providers whenever one of their patients presented at a hospital in Maryland.
Audacious Inquiry is providing its services to MedStar Health in their Health Information Exchange (HIE) technology procurement and implementation. This project intends to revolutionize the data flow and availability between over a dozen clinical systems and will enable the clinicians across the enterprise to make better and more timely decisions.
INOVA Health System has engaged Audacious Inquiry to perform project management and software systems development to enable secure and reliable integration between disparate clinical systems. Specifically, the allergy integration initiative’s objective is to create a “source of truth” allergy list within Inova’s in-patient medical record system GE Centricity Enterprise, and to effectively share this information with Inova’s Emergency Department system.
Audacious Inquiry has developed an innovative mobile clinical solution that allows providers to view and enter a person's allergies, weights, heights, and problems in GE via an IPad device or any mobile device running Safari, Google Chrome, and Android.

Barbara Koch
07.24.12
Ai is assisting CMS and prime contractor Turning Point with the implementation and configuration of IBM Initiate software as a solution for screening providers such as physicians and medical equipment companies for the risk of fraud.
Ben Purkis
01.25.12

This case study reflects large-scale implementation and application of IBM’s master data management (MDM) tool, Initiate™, in the context of statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maryland, led by Audacious Inquiry.

Audacious Inquiry has developed an innovative mobile clinical solution that allows providers to view and enter a person's allergies, weights, heights, and problems in GE via an IPad device or any mobile device running Safari, Google Chrome, and Android.

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.

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.

Powermax GlobalAI 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.

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.

 

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.

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.

Ai is assisting CMS and prime contractor Turning Point with the implementation and configuration of IBM Initiate software as a solution for screening providers such as physicians and medical equipment companies for the risk of fraud.
In 2011 Ai worked with the Maryland Health Care Commission on a project to develop best standards for prior authorization, a process to determine in advance the medical necessity of certain care and services covered by insurance carriers.

This case study reflects large-scale implementation and application of IBM’s master data management (MDM) tool, Initiate™, in the context of statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maryland, led by Audacious Inquiry.

AI is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by Harris Corp. to support the implementation of a statewide health information exchange (HIE) in the state of Florida. The project, awarded by Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) under a four-year, $19 million agreement, is intended to improve the delivery and coordination of healthcare throughout the state.

The Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) announced yesterday that Maryland has formally "gone live" with its statewide health information exchange (HIE). HIE is the infrastructure that supports the private and secure flow of health information among physician practices, hospitals, labs, radiology centers, and other healthcare institutions. Audacious Inquiry serves as Program Director and Technical Architect for the HIE on behalf of CRISP.