Dr. Barton Leonard, Director of Suburban Hospital's Emergency Department, praises his experience with CRISP, Maryland's state Health Information Exchange (HIE) in this video.

Ai's Founder and Managing Partner, Christopher Brandt, had the honor of visiting the White House today to attend President Obama's announcement of his proposal to reform, reorganize and consolidate Government. President Obama requested congressional authority to consolidate six government agencies into one more efficient agency to promote competitiveness, exports and American business. The policy is also intended to reduce the maze of federal bureaucracy that businesses must navigate to gain government support.

Audacious Inquiry (Ai) has announced new plans to leverage its expertise implementing IBM’s Initiate Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) as an official IBM Business Partner after completing a rigorous business partner and subject matter expert certification process. IBM Initiate Patient accurately matches and links patient identities to create a single view for use by EMRs, clinical portals, administrative applications and analytics.

Dr. Barton Leonard, Director of Suburban Hospital's Emergency Department, praises his experience with CRISP, Maryland's state Health Information Exchange (HIE) in this video.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Baltimore SmartCEO magazine interviewed Ai founder and Managing Partner Chris Brandt for an article on organic business growth in the January 2012 issue. In the article, Chris and other Baltimore CEOs discuss obstacles and solutions to achieving sustainable growth.

Audacious Inquiry (Ai) has announced new plans to leverage its expertise implementing IBM’s Initiate Enterprise Master Person Index (EMPI) as an official IBM Business Partner after completing a rigorous business partner and subject matter expert certification process. IBM Initiate Patient accurately matches and links patient identities to create a single view for use by EMRs, clinical portals, administrative applications and analytics.