By Audacious Inquiry Team on Monday, June 09, 2008 4:06 PM

Today, AI officially became a Microsoft HealthVault consultant, one of only eight in the world.  Here is the link on MSDN.
 

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By Audacious Inquiry Team on Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:32 PM

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced this week that an AI project has won the support of the Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) to plan for state-wide Health Information Exchange.  The joint venture among Erickson Retirement Communites, Johns Hopkins Medicine, MedStar Health, and the University of Md. Medical System will be supported with $250,000 from the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) funded through the hospital rate setting system.  It will develop recommendations on a broad range of policies, principles, and designs for the secure exchange of Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Monday, April 14, 2008 9:44 PM

This audio report from iHealthBeat hits on a point we've been harping on for several months now. We believe that the power of the social networking idiom and web 2.0 technologies will drive adoption of electronic health resources. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:26 PM

Undoubtedly, the portability of medical records, enabled by a variety of new technologies and business processes, will significantly impact the healthcare industry in the months and years ahead. We should expect that HIE (Health Information Exchange) efforts will begin to bear fruit, and the organic and acquisitive expansion of health systems, as well as the increasing sophistication of these systems’ information technology infrastructure, will facilitate greater portability and exchange. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:00 PM

Audacious Inquiry, LLC announced today that it will serve as the integration partner for a new initiative of the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NOVARHIO) in Fairfax County. Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, December 14, 2007 4:30 PM

I recently attended a plenary session with an Audacious Inquiry Colleague, Edmond Magny, for the NOVA RHIO. The NOVA RHIO group has been formally meeting for the past 18 months discussing approaches to health information exchange in the Northern Virginia area and a strategy to address the inherent challenges in this kind of effort. We attended the session to get a better grasp on where in the process the NOVA group is, to understand the current participants and stakeholders at the table and to understand the current funding realities. The session began (as most do) with a 30 minute meet and greet for the attendees. This latest group had grown considerably larger (according to those with prior attendance) and signaled progress in moving the group to action. Towards the end of the meeting I spoke with Jane Woods, former Virginia Secretary of Health and member of the NOVA RHIO group, on some of the challenges she Read More »

By Audacious Inquiry Team on Friday, October 19, 2007 7:00 AM

A collaborative project between Erickson Retirement Communities and St. Agnes Hospital has established instant patient data exchange between their respective Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, marking the first time in the United States that such a system has been developed between a hospital and a continuing care retirement provider. Audacious Inquiry led the integration team. Read More »