The Bogart Group, Inc.

The Bogart Group, Inc. was founded in 2004 by Alicemary Aspell Adams and Jeff Adams following their extensive experiences working with clinical information systems, quality initiatives, operations improvement and project management. The Bogart Group is currently based in California with roots in, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Hampshire. Our team has worked with more than forty clients throughout the United States. We are very proud of our work and our many long standing relationships.

Alicemary Aspell Adams has a career spanning most sectors of patient care delivery. She has served as flight nurse in the US Air Force, provided direct patient cardiac care, worked as an occupational health nurse in a major New York brokerage firm, led systemwide clinical information systems installations, and served as the Director of Quality Assurance and Risk Reduction at a New England hospital. While all of these roles may appear seemingly unrelated, one common defining thread is that they were all emerging roles that push(ed) the envelope of nursing/ clinical practice. It is the continual expansion of practice and domain knowledge that best defines Alicemary's interests and endeavors.

Ms. Aspell Adams, is currently a student in the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine Graduate BioInformatics Certificate Progam. Her educational credentials also include a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts - Lowell and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Hartford Barney School of Business. Alicemary's research interests specifically lie at the intersection of biosurveillance, public heath informatics and translating bench science. Specifically her research interests surround the role of clinical informatics in US Homeland Security. Ms. Aspell Adams is a Member of the American Medical Informatics Association and Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honors Society.

Jeffrey M. Adams crafted his expertise in healthcare systems, health care organizational effectiveness, organizational quality measures and terminology standardization from his experience as a consultant and researcher. He has collaborated with the nation’s leading authorities on nursing administration, health care management, quality outcomes and clinical systems. Mr. Adams has served as a direct advisor to nursing leaders on practice model redesign, Magnet accreditation and clinical systems improvement and documentation processes. He has recently provided staffing analysis, workforce and errors reports for a hospital in Maine. He has led the systems development, staff education, and organizational transition of two merging hospitals in Connecticut. Mr. Adams has developed a widely used clinical systems lexicon and proprietary electronic health record that includes nursing taxonomies for a major pharmaceutical industry vendor in the Mountain region. He has played an integral role in the development of online tools for health/disease management sponsored by the payer groups in the West. His earliest roles were the assessment, utilization, management and reporting of health care business office tools.

Mr. Adams has significant experience in healthcare systems workforce and clinical information utilization solutions. He is frequently asked to share his industry knowledge with clients, conference attendees, students and advisory panels. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Boston College with anticipated dissertation completion Summer of 2008. His dissertation research focuses on the influence of the nurse executive on patient care work environments. He is also a Pre-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. Mr. Adams is an active member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, the American Medical Informatics Association, The Council for Graduate Education in Administrative Nursing, and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization and Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honors Society. He has served on the faculty of an Ivy League University and on the Board of Governors at a leading teaching and research university in the Midwest. Mr. Adams is an experienced writer whose work has been published in journals, textbooks and other publications. His educational credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan and a Masters of Science in Nursing and Healthcare Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business.

Kelly Grady has a wide variety of clinical, teaching, research, and professional experience. Ms. Grady’s clinical expertise has been focused in maternal child nursing, with 15+ years of pediatric and birthing center experience. She has also served as a Major in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, and most recently held the position of Head Nurse of Labor & Delivery at WOMACK Army Medical Center at Ft. Bragg, N.C. (2003 –2004) as a mobilized Army Reservist. Ms. Grady currently holds a position at a community hospital where she has developed and now facilitates a new graduate residency program. Ms. Grady is a key contributor in a number of evidence-based hospital projects, including the Patient Safety Team and Best Practice Committee.

Ms. Grady is currently a doctoral candidate at Boston College having completed her coursework in June 2006. She was a doctoral fellow at Boston College from 2004 – 2007. Her dissertation research focuses on the study of mothers’ and fathers’ experiences of parenting a lone twin, when one twin dies. Ms. Grady is an active member of the Association of Women’s Health and Neonatal Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honor Society, and Eastern Nursing Research Society. Ms. Grady has held a variety of teaching positions including both clinical and didactic teaching experiences in addition to her current hospital position of clinical instructor and facilitator of a new grad residency program. She has published work associated with her fellowship and has several manuscripts in progress. Ms. Grady is an accomplished public speaker and has presented in various settings. Ms. Grady’s educational credentials include a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science with a Minor in College Teaching from the Teaching Excellence Program of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.