General introduction to Augury Network Advisors, with project examples

1. Not Information Technology … Information Solutions
Augury Network Advisors,
LLC

2. Introducing
Augury Network Advisors, LLC
• Technical Services Provider
• Rhode Island based partnership
• Founded in 2009
Who We Are
Cost effective Information Management
Solutions for small and
medium sized enterprises
What We Provide

3. Introducing
Augury Network Advisors, LLC
• Assess
evaluate information requirements
• Design
devise tailored solutions using proven systems
• Deliver
implement solutions as services or as systems
• Support
collaboratively introduce users to systems and processes
• Maintain
continuing administration, customization, and user training
How We Deliver

4. The Value of Augury’s
Information Management Solutions
Enterprise
Systems
Expertise
• Network infrastructure
• Platform architecture
• System operations
Shared IT
Resources
• Manage what you pay
- Pay for what you
use -Use what you
need
• Access to
experienced,
specialist resources
Free Open
Source
Software
• No capital outlay
• Public licenses
• Flexibility
• Standards based
• Community support
Infrastructure
or SaaS
• Balance capacity,
capability, costs and
constraints
• Leverage in-place
facilities or avoid
capital expansion

5. Augury’s Business Model
•Process model
•Workflow analysis
•Information
requirements
Assess
•IT architecture
•Enterprise systems
•Software-as-a-
Service
Design •Procurement
•Installation
•Configuration
•Implementation
Deliver
•Pilot program
•User training
•Software
customization
Support •System admin
•Problem fix
•Upgrade
Maintain
• Fixed-price quotes
• Statement of Work
• Satisfaction guarantee
Managed Projects
• Monthly subscription fee
• Service level agreement
• Flexible terms
Managed Services

6. Augury Project Management Methods and
Techniques
Firm Fixed-Price
Project Management
Our Goals
• Cost effective
• Value oriented
• Positive impact
Our Projects
• Statement of
Work
• Specific
deliverables
• Explicit schedule
• Fixed pricing
Our Approach
• Responsive like
an in-house IT
Dept
• Sized to fit your
needs
• Focused on
results

7. A Four Point Information Management Strategy for
Small and Medium Enterprises
• Emulate commercial productivity growth over past 20 years
• Adopt full scope of enterprise systems
• Resource planning, learning management, human resource management, collaboration
platforms, and more
• Focus on data, integration, and interoperability
Apply information technology throughout
operations
• Leverage community experience, insight, and effort
• Build to open standards
• Avoid vendor “lock-in”
• Align costs with value
Exploit open source solutions
• Wherever possible, function over infrastructure
• Employ re-useable components
• Expand “out-tasking” through external resources
Minimize fixed information technology costs
• Thoroughly analyze operating processes
• Exercise incremental and modular design
• Use encapsulation
• Building by “mashup”
Maximize solution flexibility

8. Example Information Management
Solutions from Augury
Online Staff Training
and Certification
Individual Care Planning
and Monitoring

9. The Customers That We Served…
Long Term Care Enterprises
Residential,
HCBC,
Nursing, and
Rehab
Typically non-
profit
Substantial
fixed/durable
assets
Shallow IT
infrastructure
Lacking
enterprise
systems
Ongoing Challenges
Quality of
Care
Certification
Staff
Recruitment
Costs
Management
Driving Trends
Rising
operatin
g costs
Declinin
g
compen
-sation
Broader
regul-
ation
Market
evolutio
n
Coming
incentiv
e /
penalty
era

10. Online Staff Training and Certification
 Impact training quality and capacity
◦ Broader curriculum and materials
◦ Enable refresher training
◦ Enhance certification testing
 Transform staff skills development process
◦ Use legacy training materials enhanced with online resources
◦ Mix individual and instructor-led sessions
◦ Enable staff collaboration
 Hold or reduce operating costs
◦ Reduce training facilities demand
◦ Leverage instructor capacity
◦ Lessen travel time, training compensation
◦ Anytime, anyplace certification testing

11. Online Staff Training and Certification
 Augury’s Solution Provides …
◦ Tailored training to the Direct Support staff
 Curriculum design and results reporting
 Individual, self-paced training sessions
 Access to internal and external information
resources
 Certification test design, delivery and support
◦ Comprehensive records of employee-student
training activity and results
 Management and summary reports
 Training results and performance evaluation

12. Individual Care Planning and Monitoring
 Enhances creation,
organization and accessibility
of care planning
documentation
◦ Online, paperless creation
◦ Transparent documentation
scheme
◦ Comprehensive indexing enables
complex, universal searches
 Secure individual records
against loss, unauthorized
access, or alteration
 Managed workflow processes
◦ Automatic notifications
◦ Timeline compliance
 Enable progress data as an
actionable resource
◦ Statistical profiling
 Remote review and
certification processes
 Assure tracking and charting
compliance
 Consolidate individual records
◦ Encompass official, legacy,
historical, and electronic
artifacts
 Enable inter-agency
information exchanges
◦ Encroaching Health
Information Exchanges (HIE)
and the National Health
Information Network (NHIN)

13. Individual Care Planning and Monitoring
 Augury’s Solution Provides …
◦ Tailored assessment, care planning, and progress
tracking forms
 Legacy proprietary forms for internal use
 Standard forms for regulatory compliance
 Flexible charting and routine data collection
◦ Connected documentation
 Reusable assessment and planning information
 Automatic document compilation
◦ Enforceable information security and privacy
 Fine-grain permissions management
 User authentication, authorization and tracking
◦ Information access anywhere

14. Augury’s Managing Principals
 James S. Fitzgerald
 jsfitz@augurynet.com
 Mobile: 339.788.0499
 Founding Partner & Managing
Principal
 Program Management,
Network Operations
Management, Process
Engineering
 30+ years experience in
network operations and
management
 Sr. Director NCC, Global
Capacity
 Network Operations Director,
Nortel Networks
 Bay Networks, Motorola
 Paul R. LaRiviere
 plariv@augurynet.com
 Mobile: 781.316.5870
 Founding Partner & Managing
Principal
 Network OSS/BSS
Architecture, Applications
Design and Development,
Process Engineering
 30+ years experience in
network system design and
operations
 CIO, Global Capacity
 Chief Product Architect,
CentrePath
 Bay Networks, INS, Motorola
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