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AUDACIOUS IN ACTION!
This is our space for chronicling life at AI as we grow from a start-up venture to a mature enterprise.  We post our press releases here, and our team members will also write regularly about challenges and solutions that arise during the course of our project work.

By Audacious Inquiry Team on 12/9/2008 4:38 PM

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) invited the AI team to present to its annual regional conference about CRISP, the statewide health information exchange being planned in Maryland.
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By Audacious Inquiry Team on 12/5/2008 3:39 PM

Read about one AI team member's involvement in the establishment of a Latino scholarship at Duke University. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on 12/5/2008 10:39 AM

The Federal Government furthers its use of Web 2.0 including blogs, social networks and virtual worlds.
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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:47 PM

A report published by HIMSS in August 2008 entitled Electronic Health Records: A Global Perspective indicates that the U.S. has fallen behind “in many distinct and important categories of EHR implementation.”  However, taking a step back to consider all the evidence, it seems that funding and centralization, while vital to HIE success, are nonetheless only pieces of an even larger and more complex puzzle. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:28 PM

Last month, a federal court of appeals in Boston ruled to uphold a New Hampshire law prohibiting the sale of physician-specific prescription drug data.  Read more to find out the implications for US healthcare and the data mining industry.

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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Monday, December 01, 2008 11:23 AM

As a follow-up to the post about Obama’s health care initiatives, we’ve also taken a look at proposals originating in the legislative branch. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on 11/25/2008 10:35 AM

Audacious Inquiry grew at the fourth-fastest rate from 2006 to 2007 among privately-held businesses in the Baltimore area, according to a special report from the Baltimore Business JournalIts 2007 revenue of $1.4 million was a 150 percent increase year-over-year.  Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:50 PM

Audacious Inquiry is thrilled about what looks to be a major focus on health information technology by the Obama-Biden administration. 

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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 PM

"CMMI" stands for Capability Maturity Model Integration.  Simply put, CMMI is a numeric scale used to “rate” the maturity of a software development process or team. 

Audacious Inquiry is actively working to incorporate and embrace the CMMI methodology because we believe it will provide our organization with the essential elements to create improvement and effectiveness across projects, divisions, and the entire organization.  As Audacious Inquiry continues to grow in size and technical expertise, CMMI will help integrate our separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, and provide guidance for quality processes.
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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:44 PM

Jie Lian, AI's interactive designer and a Maryland Institute College of Art alum, returned to MICA yesterday evening to attend a lecture by the well-known brand expert Brian Collins.  Brian is Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS: a laboratory for innovative and transformative design, where teams of artists, writers, architects, technologists and strategists collaborate with their clients, as they put it, "to invent the future." Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:51 AM

Generally, Section 508 (29 U.S.C. ‘749d) requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities.

As government agencies move more and more toward online and web-based tools, IT government contractors will be required to understand and adhere to these requirements.

Section 1194.22 of the Act specifically refers to “Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications.”

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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Monday, October 27, 2008 8:12 PM

As noted in the Baltimore Sun, some primary care physicians in Howard County (AI’s home county) are spurning Medicare and other third party payers in favor of private-pay / concierge medicine.
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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, October 17, 2008 1:36 PM

The newest member of the AI team, Kristen Bova, shares her own testament to the value of health information exchange... Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, October 17, 2008 1:29 PM

Recent commentary in USA Today explores why doctors are still shying away from adopting important health information technologies (HIT).

Ref: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/10/why-doctors-sti.html
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By Audacious Inquiry Team on 10/10/2008 10:50 AM

Audacious Inquiry was honored recently by the Greater Baltimore Committee with a 2008 Bridging the Gap Award.

Related Links:
HCEDA News & Information
Baltimore Business Journal
Daily Record

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