Audacious Inquiry, LLC

AI Graduates from The Center for Business and Technology Development

David Finney — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:56:52 GMT

Congratulations Audacious Inquiry! The leading management and technology firm will graduate this August from The Center for Business and Technology Development’s NeoTech Incubator to move into its new 2,600-square-foot headquarters at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park.

AI Team Members Support Baltimore Library

Christopher Brandt — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:35:44 GMT

AI team members were captured by Baltimore Magazine attending the Truman Capote-themed "Black and White Party," a friend and fund raising event for the Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

Maryland Receives $9.3 Million in Health Information Exchange Funding

David Finney — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:13:32 GMT

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) made its second and final tranche of statewide health information exchange (HIE) grants today, which included a grant to Maryland.

A Top Management Consultancy in Baltimore

David Finney — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:26:17 GMT

Audacious Inquiry was named a top management consulting firm in the Baltimore region by the Baltimore Business Journal (February 5-11 issue).

Maryland Hospital Association Health IT Executive Forum

Megan Wright — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:44:39 GMT

Last Thursday, the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) hosted its first Health IT Executive Forum focusing on Federal and State Health IT Initiatives and Principles for Progressing in a Health IT-enabled Future in Maryland at its headquarters in Elkridge, Maryland.

Audacious Inquiry Welcomes New Team Members

Christopher Brandt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:16:10 GMT

It is a privilege to welcome a number of capable professionals to Audacious Inquiry.

Maryland Governor Nominates AI Founder for MSBDFA Board

Jie Lian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:33 GMT

Christopher Brandt was recently nominated by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley to serve as a board member on the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority (MSBDFA). MSBDFA provides financial assistance to socially and economically disadvantaged small business owners throughout the state.

Incubator Company of the Year Finalist

David Finney — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:30:26 GMT

For the second year in a row, AI received recognition as a finalist in Maryland's statewide Incubator Company of the Year Awards.

AI Shows Support for HB706

Kristen Bova — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:47:17 GMT

On Tuesday, AI team members Scott Afzal, David Finney, and Christopher Brandt showed their support as Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law Maryland House Bill 706.

AI Volunteer in the News

Edmond Magny — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:48:03 GMT

David Finney, AI’s Marketing Director, has been elected the new President of the Board of Directors for the Shepherd’s Clinic.

Services Firms Follow AI in Shifting Compensation Models

David Finney — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:53:55 GMT

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.

CRISP Website Relaunched, Traffic Rises

David Finney — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:14:17 GMT

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. Over the last several weeks, with the increased prominence of health IT generally and CRISP specifically -- for instance, CRISP leaders David Horrocks and Mark Kelemen were recently interviewed on Baltimore's WYPR public radio -- traffic to the CRISP website has risen dramatically.

AI Sr. Partner David Bell Publishes on Impulse Buying

David Finney — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:16 GMT

It's long been a conventional wisdom of consumer product marketers that "supermarkets are places of high impulse buying -- fully 60 to 70 percent of purchases there were unplanned, grocery industry studies have shown us." So said psychologist and market researcher Paco Underhill in his 1999 book Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping. In a newly published research paper, AI senior partner David Bell and two colleagues challenge this long-held view, uncovering evidence that far fewer of grocery shoppers' purchases are impulsive and, further, that impulsive shopping is driven less by in-store merchandising and more by traits of the individual purchaser. The research will cause many marketers to reconsider their approaches to marketing grocery-store products from toothpaste to tomato sauce.

EMR Project Featured in Sun Article on HIT, Stimulus

David Finney — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:31:20 GMT

Matthew Hay Brown published a long article on President Obama's health information technology agenda in this morning's Baltimore Sun. The article provides a good overview of the stimulus, the challenges of driving EHR adoption, and the broad debate about HIT interoperability.

AI to Receive CATS II Master Contract from State of Maryland

David Finney — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:24:54 GMT

Maryland's Department of Information Technology has recommended that Audacious Inquiry receive a Master Contract award through its Consulting & Technical Services (CATS) II contracting vehicle.

AI Team Member Shares Company Vision for Capitalizing on a Stimulated Economy

Kristen Bova — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:38:57 GMT

Following the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act being signed into law on February 17th, many healthcare technology firms are identifying opportunities to capitalize on the funds allocated to health IT.

Media Coverage of the CRISP HIE Report

David Finney — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:15:31 GMT

A number of media outlets are running coverage on the CRISP plan for Maryland health information exchange. We have linked to them here.

AI Showcases Capabilities at Maryland Academy of Family Physicians Winter Regional Conference

Kristen Bova — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:31:24 GMT

This past Saturday, my AI colleagues and I hosted an exhibit at the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians Winter Regional Conference.

AI Team Member Interviewed in Business Journal

Christopher Brandt — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:47:37 GMT

AI Principal, Edmond Magny, shares his experience and opinion on how small employers can and do manage to respond to team member illness.

AI Volunteer Project, CRISP Participation Highlighted in MedStar Report

David Finney — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:09:35 GMT

MedStar Health's 2008 Community Benefit Report highlighted the longstanding partnership between MedStar's Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore and the Shepherd's Clinic, where AI's David Finney volunteers and is president of the board.

Audacious Inquiry to Present at Upcoming Maryland HIMSS Event

Christopher Brandt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:22:54 GMT

Scott Afzal, Director of Health Information Systems at Audacious Inquiry, will present alongside David Horrocks, Senior VP of Erickson Retirement Communities, at the February 6, 2009 meeting of the Maryland chapter of HIMSS on the topic of health information exchange (HIE) in Maryland and the Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients (CRISP) HIE planning initiative. Their presentation is a component of an educational workshop entitled, “Leveraging Information Technologies to Extend the Reach.”

AI Recognized as One of the Top 500 Hispanic American Owned Businesses in the U.S.

Christopher Brandt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:15:32 GMT

Audacious Inquiry is recognized as one of the Top 500 Hispanic American Owned Businesses in the U.S. by DiversityBusiness.com.

Audacious Inquiry Selected to Join the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved

Kristen Bova — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:03:57 GMT

Audacious Inquiry is honored to announce we have been selected to join the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, led by HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, Dr. Garth Graham.

Baltimore Business Journal Consults with AI Team Member on Storing Health Data

Christopher Brandt — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:51:06 GMT

AI team member Scott Afzal shares his thoughts with the Baltimore Business Journal on storing health data.

AI Earns GSA Schedule 70, Maryland MBE

David Finney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:25:43 GMT

AI announced today two important milestones in the growth of its government services business line. The firm has negotiated a Schedule 70 contract with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) for technical consulting services. The firm has also been recognized by the State of Maryland’s Department of Transportation as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE).