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Brief History of PIIM

Rising from its academic roots, PIIM has steadily enhanced its capabilities to deliver renowned solutions and solidified itself as the leader in Knowledge Visualization.

2002
Co-founded by former Nebraskan Senator Robert Kerrey and William Bevington PIIM opens its doors and begins its foundational research program.

2003
Leveraging early successes of graduate faculty and students PIIM begins exploration of the electoral process with a substantial grant from Peter Lewis to develop the Public Opinion Tool.

Expanding its programs with a new Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) practice PIIM commences its engagements with commercial and government organizations.

2004
With several programs completed and a burgeoning GIS/Information Visualization practice PIIM secures its first program with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to induce innovation into the long history of imagery analysis.

As PIIM completes its initial research for the NGA — with presentations to the National Academies of Science and numerous publications — it embarks on developing the Geospace and Media Tool (GMT) for the U.S. Congress.

PIIM begins intensive outreach and establishes deep relationships with its data, service, and engineering partners — laying the foundation for mass collaboration and knowledge exchange with world-class researchers.

2005
Successfully delivering cutting-edge prototypes to the U.S. Congress PIIM enhances its portfolio with additional technology and product development work for organizations such as Goldman Sachs and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

PIIM expands its high profile team with the addition of recognized visualization, usability, and engineering researchers — injecting deep science into its deliverables-focused teams.

2006
With continued success delivering prototypes and technologies PIIM begins the end-to-end system integration work for the deployable GMT system. Supported by its partners and its Visualization Driven Rapid Prototyping process PIIM delivers at every milestone.

PIIM launches its unique Quotes Over Time application and continues to build its research capabilities in social networking, mass media, and visualization engineering.

2007
Delivering its GMT system to the U.S. Congress PIIM enjoys a perfect review from its sponsors and recommendations exemplifying its Visualization Driven Rapid Prototyping as a revolutionary time- and cost-saving program methodology.

PIIM successfully engineers and delivers its Long-term Care and Analysis Tool and the Debate Tracker system and expands its Web 2.0 engineering practice.

PIIM begins building its Medical Informatics practice with exploratory research into commercial and government Electronic Medical Record systems.

2008
PIIM receives funding to advance governmental Electronic Medical Records systems and expands its Medical Informatics practice. Work begins on developing PIIM's core EMR technologies and modules.

2009
PIIM initiates new programs with the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Columbia University, the United Nations, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). PIIM's program focus spans public health, clinical workflow optimization, Graphic User Interface (GUI) design, Geographic Information System (GIS) design and development, and usability-centric analysis and GUI design improvement.