Audacious Inquiry's current customer base includes state agencies and state-designated entities for HIE, federal agencies, hospitals and large integrated delivery networks (IDNS), national payers, as well as private-sector clients in the financial services, education, and non-profit sectors. Its project mix is weighted towards stable, long-term client relationships with some shorter-term, deliverable-based engagements.

Our track record of completing projects and providing high-quality deliverables on time and on budget is exemplary. The Ai team employs an overall management approach founded on processes defined in the internationally recognized and federal government-endorsed Project Management Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge. This approach ensures that all required tasks are planned and completed according to schedule, budget, and to the highest professional standard as measured by predetermined and mutually understood performance standards, processes, and procedures.  The number of critical software solutions that AI has developed or procured for its clients—and that continue to be relied upon—serves as strong evidence of the success and repeatability of our approach. 

The team boasts more than fifty years of collective experience in the healthcare industry, having worked on a range of projects in multiple states with a wide array of objectives, technologies and stakeholders. This includes over four years of working for the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), the state-designated entity for HIE in Maryland. Ai worked for the president of this organization on health IT projects for five years prior to the incorporation of CRISP.  Very few firms nationally offer a comparable level of experience designing and implementing statewide HIE programs.

Team members actively participate in federally-sponsored health IT policy and standards development bodies (HL7, HITSP, IHE, NHIN and NHIN Direct) and includes a co-author of the NHIN Exchange specifications and a founding architect of one of the market’s established HIE infrastructure providers. The team has designed and developed systems that work with data and transport interoperability standards using HL7, HIPAA (EDI), XDS.b, PIX/PDQ, and CCD.

Ai has verifiable past experience in the following areas:

• Health IT project and program management
• Health information exchange subject matter experts—strategy, infrastructure design, and deployment
• Health information systems interoperability, interfaces, message routing, and master patient indexes
• Patient engagement and personal health record system development; officially recognized Microsoft HealthVault™ consultant
• EHRs—technology implementation, clinical workflow mapping, and forms development
• Strategy formulation, stakeholder communication and workgroup facilitation

More broadly, Ai has a wealth of experience and knowhow in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Systems Integration space, which will be valuable to the winning MERP team. AI team members have invested substantial time and effort designing and implementing system integration solutions using BizTalk Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for customers in healthcare, education, and government.

As an IBM Valued Plus Partners, Ai brings a wealth of IBM Initiate master data management, or MDM, consulting and implementation experience. Not only has Ai been the key drivers and implementers of Maryland's successful HIE's MDM implementation, the company has shown a wide breath of experience implementing MDM solutions across a wide range of projects. The AI team's expertise in implementing and consulting on MDM projects related to the healthcare, federal agencies and other private sector organizations is second only to IBM itself.

Ai's MDM expertise includes:

• Data analysis, data modeling and data architecture
• Systems integrations
• Enterprise architecture
• Initiate MDM implementation skills
• Senior software engineers - custom development
• Custom report generation skills
• Integrating MDM solutions into the enterprise
• Long term and short term technical support
• Project managers with specific MDM implementation skills and experience

Want the very best? The Ai team members' broad knowledge and experience within their specific industries allow for tailored, successful and expertise-driven solutions, throughout the MDM project lifecycle.

AI is currently offering the following services for IBM Initiate MDM implementations:

• Program and project management
• Pre-implementation data analysis
• Custom development tailored to business requirements
  • Report development
  • Application development
• User-interfaces, engine call outs (ECOs), monitoring solutions
• Implementation services
  • Start to finish services provided with a team to deliver project management, implementation consulting, data analysis, process consulting
• Install base services
  • IBM Initiate MDM upgrades
  • Post go-live MDM system analysis
  • Add-a-source/add-an-attribute
  • Source integration
• Technical support/assistance
• Process and data governance consulting
   

Audacious Inquiry uses available open-source and commercial products to facilitate the rapid development of modern web applications.  We have verifiable past experience in completing complex projects within the federal government and the private sector. With more than a dozen web applications successfully deployed in the last four years, Ai believes that there are three primary drivers of a successful outcome: 1) the quality and comprehensiveness of the plan, including the detailing in advance of all known goals, requirements, risks, and dependencies; 2) the commitment and initiative of all members of the project team; and 3) the project management methodologies used to create a tight feedback loop among all project stakeholders, including but not limited to the contractor, the client, and end users.

The following are among our core competencies:

• Customer concept development, functional requirements gathering, technical specification development, and graphics design
• Standards-based development: .Net, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server, DotNetNuke
• Integration with external scientific content databases and GIS mapping systems
• Mobile content syndication, Android operating system application development, and iPad development
• Training and transition services to fulltime staff for ongoing operations
• Customer engagement and web 2.0
• Transmission and storage of sensitive data and protected health information
• Federal government-specific requirements, including Section 508 compliance and agency- and department-wide technical and visual guidelines

Audacious Inquiry offers a range of analytical consulting services that, for many client engagements, are complementary to our other business lines.  They include:

• Statistical analyses of marketing programs and objectives
• Business intelligence and dashboarding
• Data mining and analysis, including of health care claims data
• Customer lifetime value assessments, pricing analyses, strategy formulation
• Supported by Dr. David Bell, marketing professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania