Healthy Homes
Environmental hazards in the home harm millions of children each year. In 1999,
in response to a Congressional Directive over concerns about child environmental
health, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched
its Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI) to protect children and their families
from housing-related health and safety hazards. For this program, iFed, LLC was
engaged to assist the department in managing, reporting, and analyzing grantee
performance, and to improve accountability while leveraging technology to
collect, report, and analyze grant performance. iFed, LLC is supporting HOPE VI
in financial, business process, and technology insertion needs. iFed, LLC routinely
collects financial data, synthesizes it, and produces information deemed
critical to HUD program management.
Public Health Promotion and Preventive
For the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
(CHPPM) executives realized a need to refurbish its mission,
vision, goals, and objectives based on sweeping transformations
in the US Armed Forces, Defense Department, and United States
Government in recent years. CHPPM management decided to conduct
a workshop to bring together the CHPPM command-level leadership
to craft components of a CHPPM strategic plan. By recommendation
from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command,
Control, Communications, and Computers (ODISC4), iFed, LLC was retained
to facilitate the Commander’s Strategic Planning Conference.
iFed, LLC coordinated and led all aspects of the session including
developing the agenda, clarifying roles and responsibilities
of participants, clarifying the workshop goals and objectives,
and gathering pertinent session information.
Disease Prevention
iFed, LLC delivered innovation to the State of Maryland that enabled
them to determine geographical location within Maryland that
had a lack of health care physicians with the State of Maryland. This
database solution served as a tool to allow Health Executives
to recruit physicians to underserved locations in Maryland.
Emergency Preparedness
iFed, LLC supported a working group that surveyed 36 Federal Agencies
to obtain a snapshot of existing terrorist-related screening
processes, programs, data, and systems Government-wide. This
included conducting interviews of experts and senior officials
in terrorist-related screening to identify known weaknesses,
best practices, and gather recommendations for improvement. iFed, LLC
provided support to DHS information sharing initiatives in the
areas of: 1) program planning and development of "As-Is" and "To-Be" terrorist
screening architectures; 2) systems engineering and development
of the DHS Information Sharing Environment (ISE) for Watch List
Integration; 3) reach back support for the Terrorist Screening
Center (TSC) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),
and 4) support of the DHS Information Sharing and Collaboration
Office (ISCO) to develop information sharing agreements between
DHS and external partners. The collected information, including
existing policy, was analyzed to formulate an overall strategy
with specific recommendations, and an implementation plan. iFed, LLC
contributions resulted in recommendations for improvement in
management coordination, standard setting, resource prioritization,
information sharing, data quality and access, and performance
measures. iFed, LLC has developed an inventory of over 70 DHS systems
that house terrorist data and is in the process of developing
technical interface points among systems to enable data sharing
and interoperability. It is anticipated that a number of the
systems may be retired due in part to iFed, LLC's efforts.
Human Services
iFed, LLC was faced with the challenge of assisting the CIO of Maryland’s
Department of Human Resources (DHR) to transform the way technology
services were delivered within an Agency that consisted of more
than 7,000 full-time employees. The CIO could not afford
to have the transformation implementation negatively impact the
agency’s mission-critical systems. These systems support
the delivery of social services, track activities, and manage outcomes. iFed, LLC
worked with Agency executives to align and identify gaps within
DHR’s business functions and services that resulted in an
IT modernization plan and the framework for an Enterprise Program
Management Office. As part of its support to DHR, TMI’s
EA team met with stakeholders within the agency and delivered an
IT Plan that addressed key domains within the agency, including
strategy, governance, operations, resources, architecture, and
organization. The result was iFed, LLC’s delivery of DHR’s
first Enterprise Architecture.
Scientific Research and Development
Health research is a promising field of study for iFed, LLC, encompassing
projects that range from studies of the human genome to global
health education. We support government by providing information
technology solutions that facilitate the evaluation claim processing,
health coverage plans or finding new drugs that treat harmful
diseases, iFed, LLC works to enrich all aspects of human health. |
