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Durham, NC January 3, 2012 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced Mental Health Partners headquartered in Boulder, Colorado selected MindLinc, as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“MindLinc provides the flexibility and clinical capabilities to support the ongoing transformation of Mental Health Partners’ services. The software is designed for the behavioral health market and offers many clinical assessment instruments, client surveys and self-assessments, as well as recovery-oriented notes and treatment plans. MindLinc gives MHP an important tool as we prepare for health care reform,” said Barbara Ryan, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer for Mental Health Partners.

“MHP’s strategic goals center around the continued delivery of excellent and cost-effective services that meet the mental health and wellness needs of its community and provide the level of customer service its clients deserve. MindLinc provides all of the tools to support MHP’s strategic goals. This starts with our best-in-industry assessment and outcomes functionality, which combined with information from our global data warehouse, allows MHP to determine and benchmark effectiveness of services. MindLinc’s, decision support tools offer MHP the ability to implement and guide their clinicians in the use of evidence-based practices. MindLinc’s interoperability capabilities will help MHP coordinate care across community providers.” states Deo Garlock, Executive Director for Duke Behavioral Health Informatics and MindLinc EMR.

About Mental Health Partners
Mental Health Partners is a federally designated community mental health center providing comprehensive, recovery-based services to residents of both Boulder and Broomfield Counties. MHP encompasses 27 programs serving infants, children, adolescents, adults, senior citizens, and their families who need treatment, support, and education. Partnership with local agencies is a cornerstone of MHP’s approach, facilitating the provision of high quality integrated and collaborative services not only in MHP’s offices, but also in homes, schools, primary care offices, jails, hospitals, homeless shelters, and other community-based settings. As one of the largest non-profits in the area, MHP assisted over 18,000 clients this year and responded to over 10,000 emergency psychiatric phone calls. MHP is dedicated to being the center of excellence and the provider of choice for mental health and wellness services in our communities

Durham, NC December 2, 2011 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced Central Virginia Community Services headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia selected MindLinc as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“Central Virginia Community Services offers a large array of services. Our EHR system will greatly aid CVCS in continuing to deliver great service and improve the efficiency of their health record database. We are pleased to be supporting one of the largest providers in the State of Virginia” states Deo Garlock, Executive Director of Duke Behavioral Health Informatics.

CVCS Chief Executive Officer Nancy Cottingham stated, “The implementation of the MindLinc EHR system will mean more efficient provision of care for CVCS’ consumers. This was a competitive bidding process but it was clear MindLinc was the right fit for us due to their high quality product and their affiliation with Duke University Medical School, an internationally known research medical facility.”

About Central Virginia Community Services
Founded in 1969, Central Virginia Community Services’ (CVCS) is the primary public behavioral health care provider in the Region 2000 area. CVCS’ mission is to support and promote the health, independence and self-worth of individuals and families in Central Virginia by providing a continuum of accessible community-based prevention, early intervention, aftercare, and psycho-social rehabilitation services for persons affected by mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders.

Durham, NC December 20, 2011 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced SelfRefind, headquartered in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, selected MindLinc, as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“MindLinc provides the flexibility and clinical capabilities to support medicine assisted treatment for our patients suffering from addiction. MindLinc’s outcome-focused solution will help us improve operating efficiencies and clinical care. It will provide us the tools we need now and the platform to grow as we expand our services and locations” said Bryan Wood, M.D., President for SelfRefind.

SelfRefind’s commitment to best practice and excellence in patient care, make this a unique and outstanding partnership “ states Deo Garlock, Executive Director for Duke Behavioral Health Informatics and MindLinc EMR.

About SelfRefind
SelfRefind is a network of clinics that offer help to people struggling with addiction to alcohol and pain medication by utilizing medicine-assisted treatment. Patients begin to get their life back through an individualized recovery plan that includes the use of addiction medication like Suboxone®, and counseling. SelfRefind is privately owned and not affiliated with any government agency.

Durham, NC November 14, 2011 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced The Bridge Inc. headquartered in Gadsden Alabama selected MindLinc, as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“We are very excited to be working with The Bridge. They are a leader in addiction treatment in Alabama and we are pleased to become a partner in their programs,” states Deo Garlock, Executive Director Duke Behavioral Health Informatics.

Tim Naugher, Executive Director of The Bridge, Inc. said he is excited to be working with Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics. “The process of interviewing, reviewing, analyzing and selecting an electronic medical records provider was a multi-year process,” said Naugher. “In the end, it was an easy choice to go with MindLinc. Our clinical staff members were very impressed with the functionality of the software.”

The Bridge currently operates 21 programs licensed/certified by the Alabama Department of Youth Services or the Alabama Department of Mental Health. These programs include residential addiction treatment, outpatient addiction treatment and community-based services.

Cornell Scott – Hill Health Center, the oldest and one of the largest community health centers in Connecticut, has partnered with Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics to incorporate their MindLinc product into an over-arching and fully integrated electronic health record.

Chief Operations Officer Michael R. Taylor states, “When the time came to incorporate the behavioral health component of our fully integrated electronic health record, we decided to utilize the MindLinc product because of its ease of use, seamless integration, and overall quality.”

Cornell Scott – Hill Health Center is a federally qualified community health center established in 1968 through collaboration between the community and Yale School of Medicine. The health center has a 43-year history of serving the greater New Haven community and is accredited by The Joint Commission in medical, dental and behavioral health.

MindLinc launches their new website at www.mindlinc.com.

“To say our investment with MindLinc has been a good one is an understatement. Our experience with both the product and the people far exceeds our expectation. When we need assistance, the professionalism and expertise the MindLinc team delivers is second to none.  Comments from users who worked on other systems rave about the ease yet sophistication of the system.  If you are considering an EHR and want a great product and service that will grow with the organization, there is no other choice in our opinion, MindLinc is the one!”
Chris Beasley, PsyD, Deputy Director Outpatient Services Aurora Mental Health Center

MindLinc provides customers with all of the tools to configure MindLinc to match each user’s workflow and improve documentation efficiency to increase productivity Using our System Administrator Tools customers can:
• Configure the screens to match each users work flow
• Develop customer-specific treatment plan templates using our treatment plan template builder
• Configure ASAM-based substance abuse module
• Add Decision Support Rules and Alerts
• Control content-data from our 500+ tables
• Select and Add Scales – from our Scales Library with 200+ Scales
And much more…

MindLinc provides customers with all of the tools to seamlessly integrate, manage, evaluate and improve behavioral health treatment at all levels. Customers employ the Decision Support Engine to establish and enforce clinical practices, evidence based practices, treatment guidelines, regulations and payor rules including Pay-For-Performance. Customers use MindLinc’s clinical outcomes data for retrospective decision support, and the MindLinc Global Database (all participating customers) to share anonymized data for research and benchmarking purposes

MindLinc-Duke received the federal government’s “meaningful use” stamp of approval by earning Complete EHR Ambulatory Certification as tested and certified by The Drummond Group. The designation officially enables providers to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

This Complete EHR is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by Drummond Group, an ONC-ATCB approved to certify any complete or modular EHR both ambulatory and inpatient, in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.