MindLinc

Durham, NC November 29, 2012 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced Citizen Advocates, Inc. headquartered in Malone, New York selected MindLinc as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“MindLinc offers an outstanding EHR system that will provide the tools and support we need to deliver state of the art clinical assessments, recovery-oriented progress notes, and treatment plans that exceed the standard of the behavioral health industry. MindLinc provides our agency with the comprehensive system we will need as we navigate health care reform.” states Citizen Advocates, Inc. CEO Susan Delehanty.

“Citizen Advocates, Inc. strategic goals center around the continued delivery of excellent and cost-effective services that meet the behavioral 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 CAI’s strategic goals. This starts with our best-in-industry assessment and outcomes functionality, which combined with information from our global data warehouse, allows CAI to determine and benchmark effectiveness of services. MindLinc’s, decision support tools offer CAI the ability to implement and guide their clinicians in the use of evidence-based practices.  MindLinc’s interoperability capabilities will help CAI coordinate care across community providers.” states Deo Garlock, Executive Director for MindLinc.

About Citizen Advocates, Inc.

Since 1975, Citizen Advocates, Inc. has operated many high quality programs known to many as the North Star Family of Services. The North Star programs have provided caring, professional services to thousands of individuals with physical challenges, mental health needs and chemical dependency issues.
Citizen Advocates, Inc. offers a wide array of services including: children’s residential services; vocational programs; community support services; Health Home Care Coordination, residential programs; and day program services.  North Star Behavioral Health Outpatient clinics provide a full range of services for mental health and substance use disorders. Same day open access services are available as well as 24/7 crisis services.  Our school based programs also include mental health treatment, Prevention Education and Student Assistance Programs.

The basic underlying objective of the programs and services operated by Citizen Advocates, Inc. is to help people with developmental, behavioral, and intellectual challenges live full, healthy, meaningful lives, rich with hope and choices of where and with whom they live, work, and play.

About MindLinc

MindLinc’s meaningful-use-certified, fully configurable EMR-EPM system helps customers improve quality and outcomes of care, productivity, financial performance, and achieve regulatory compliance.  MindLinc serves as the industry leader in EMR functionality, decision support and outcomes to best position our customers to meet current and future challenges (e.g., P4P and ACOs):

Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow

Easy to Use – matches user’s workflow, intuitive, write-once, rolls information forward

Call Center – manage and track callers/patients, calls, and referrals

Comprehensive, industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse assessments and functionality (e.g., over 200 clinician and client rated scales)

ASAM based Substance Evaluation – provides level of care recommendation and diagnosis

Measurement – Outcomes Tools: Innovative visual tools measure symptoms, outcomes, progress toward achieving treatment objectives & discharge and follow-up care using embedded treatment progress & outcomes tracker

Decision Support Rules Engine - rules & alerts to meet State, Federal, Regulatory requirements – guides clinicians to enforce and meet requirements and improve quality of care

Dashboard and Task Manager – Customizable Dashboard to view client, user and organization-specific information; Tasks linked into area to do your work, User & Supervisor Alerts

Integrate patient and family involvement self-reported information and feedback into treatment, follow-up/track outcomes with client -rated scales

Aftercare/Follow-up Management – ability to track clients/alumni, send aftercare rating scales to measure outcomes and satisfaction, decision support tool can provide reminders, provides key information for reporting

Referral Management – track referrals, provide key information and reports to ensure referral source satisfaction, manage and target referring organizations

Benchmark organization performance and identify and implement EBPs using MindLinc’s Global Anonymized Database – world’s largest codified behavioral health database with over 6.8 million encounters all with outcomes

Reporting & Forms Designer- SQL, Comprehensive Standard Reports, Easy Ad Hoc Reporting, Easy Report Designer, Easy Forms Designer

SaaS-Hosted and Client Server delivery Models

 MindLinc embeds behavioral health science and research into our EMR technology

 For more information on MindLinc, Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Executive Director, MindLinc

e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com  Phone: 919-303-9704

Durham, NC November 16, 2012 – MindLinc-Duke a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced Community Support Professionals located in Wilmington, North Carolina selected MindLinc as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“Community Support Professionals, LLC is excited to be working with MindLinc Duke.  The long, tedious process of researching, reviewing, and selecting an EHR was made easy after finding MindLinc. We were very impressed by the functionality and great potential for customization of the software and are looking forward to implementation.  We believe this system will allow us to improve operating efficiencies and clinical outcomes which will help Community Support Professionals, LLC further improve quality of care”, said Teri Casteen, Director of Quality Management.

“Another factor in the decision process was the availability of MindLinc staff; they were available at all times to answer questions and provide guidance ”, said Martin Justafort, Director of Operations.

“We’re extremely excited about the opportunity to partner with Community Support Professionals. Their commitment to the community through the services they provide cultivate strong, nurturing, and functional individuals and families, notes Deo Garlock, Executive Director of MindLinc-Duke.

About Community Support Professionals

Community Support Professionals, LLC offers a variety of services to help adults who have been diagnosed with mental illness and/or have substance abuse challenges. We are based in Wilmington, NC and provide services in New Hanover, Brunswick, and Pender counties. We will gladly meet with you in your home or neighborhood, at a local shelter, in our offices, or in the community as needed to assist you. We accept Medicare, Medicaid, participate will all the major carriers including, BCBS of NC, Cigna, United, Aetna, Medcost and many others. We also provide (EAP) Employee Assistance Program services for those who have it.

Community Support Professionals, LLC is a locally owned and operated mental health agency. We have been in business since 2004, consistently holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards in providing top-quality care to our consumers. Our Clinical staff consisting of 2 psychiatrist, 5 therapists and, 15 case managers are available to patients 24/7 and 365 days a year

The agency is a certified CABHA – Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency and  holds a 3 year CARF accreditation. We are an endorsed service provider for Southeastern Center for Mental Health       (Now Coastal Care ), and an enrolled provider of services with the North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance. Community Support Professionals is credentialed through the North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services. As a CABHA provider we also provide a wide range of mental health services, like case management, Individual and group therapy, Medication management, ACTT services, and Partial Hospitalization.

About MindLinc

MindLinc’s meaningful-use-certified, fully configurable EMR-EPM system helps customers improve quality and outcomes of care, productivity, financial performance, and achieve regulatory compliance.  MindLinc serves as the industry leader in EMR functionality, decision support and outcomes to best position our customers to meet current and future challenges (e.g., P4P and ACOs):

Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow

Easy to Use – matches user’s workflow, intuitive, write-once, rolls information forward

Call Center – manage and track callers/patients, calls, and referrals

Comprehensive, industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse assessments and functionality (e.g., over 200 clinician and client rated scales)

ASAM based Substance Evaluation – provides level of care recommendation and diagnosis

Measurement – Outcomes Tools: Innovative visual tools measure symptoms, outcomes, progress toward achieving treatment objectives & discharge and follow-up care using embedded treatment progress & outcomes tracker

Decision Support Rules Engine - rules & alerts to meet State, Federal, Regulatory requirements – guides clinicians to enforce and meet requirements and improve quality of care

Dashboard and Task Manager – Customizable Dashboard to view client, user and organization-specific information; Tasks linked into area to do your work, User & Supervisor Alerts

Integrate patient and family involvement self-reported information and feedback into treatment, follow-up/track outcomes with client -rated scales

Aftercare/Follow-up Management – ability to track clients/alumni, send aftercare rating scales to measure outcomes and satisfaction, decision support tool can provide reminders, provides key information for reporting

Referral Management – track referrals, provide key information and reports to ensure referral source satisfaction, manage and target referring organizations

Benchmark organization performance and identify and implement EBPs using MindLinc’s Global Anonymized Database – world’s largest codified behavioral health database with over 6.8 million encounters all with outcomes

Reporting & Forms Designer- SQL, Comprehensive Standard Reports, Easy Ad Hoc Reporting, Easy Report Designer, Easy Forms Designer

SaaS-Hosted and Client Server delivery Models

MindLinc embeds behavioral health science and research into our EMR technology

For more information on MindLinc, Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Executive Director, MindLinc

e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com  Phone: 919-303-9704

Durham, NC October 29, 2012 – MindLinc-Duke, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced Arkansas Counseling and Psychodiagnostics located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas selected MindLinc as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“We were impressed with the flexibility and dynamic nature of this system.  It will make us more productive and aid in our accuracy, data retrieval and compliance needs,” states Arkansas Counseling and Psychodiagnostics CEO Roselle Roberson.

“ACaP is a young company driven by a desire for excellence.  They chose MindLink-Duke to partner with them to go the next level,” states Deo Garlock, Executive Director for MindLinc.

About Arkansas Counseling and Psychodiagnostics, Inc.  

Arkansas Counseling and Psychodiagnostics, Inc.  is the newest RSPMI provider in Arkansas, having opened its doors in June, 2010.  ACaP, Inc. provides outpatient mental health services to children and adults including both school and office-based health care and psychodiagnostics.  Headed by two veteran health care providers—Roselle Roberson, LPC and Psychologist Charles A. Weiner, ACaP has developed a growing reputation for providing responsive and competent services for clients, their families and the Southwest Arkansas area.

About MindLinc

MindLinc’s meaningful-use-certified, fully configurable EMR-EPM system helps customers improve quality and outcomes of care, productivity, financial performance, and achieve regulatory compliance.  MindLinc serves as the industry leader in EMR functionality, decision support and outcomes to best position our customers to meet current and future challenges (e.g., P4P and ACOs):

Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow

Easy to Use – matches user’s workflow, intuitive, write-once, rolls information forward

Call Center – manage and track callers/patients, calls, and referrals

Comprehensive, industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse assessments and functionality (e.g., over 200 clinician and client rated scales)

ASAM based Substance Evaluation – provides level of care recommendation and diagnosis

Measurement – Innovative visual tools measure symptoms, outcomes, progress toward achieving treatment objectives & discharge and follow-up care using embedded treatment progress & outcomes tracker

Decision Support Rules Engine - rules & alerts to meet State, Federal, Regulatory requirements – guides clinicians to enforce and meet requirements and improve quality of care

Dashboard and Task Manager – Customizable Dashboard to view client, user and organization-specific information; Tasks linked into area to do your work, User & Supervisor Alerts

Integrate patient and family involvement self-reported information and feedback into treatment, follow-up/track outcomes with client -rated scales

Aftercare/Follow-up Management – ability to track clients/alumni, send aftercare rating scales to measure outcomes and satisfaction, decision support tool can provide reminders, provides key information for reporting

Referral Management – track referrals, provide key information and reports to ensure referral source satisfaction, manage and target referring organizations

Benchmark organization performance and identify and implement EBPs using MindLinc’s Global Anonymized Database – world’s largest codified behavioral health database with over 6.8 million encounters all with outcomes

Reporting & Forms Designer- SQL, Comprehensive Standard Reports, Easy Ad Hoc Reporting, Easy Report Designer, Easy Forms Designer

SaaS-Hosted and Client Server delivery Models

 MindLinc embeds behavioral health science and research into our EMR technology

For more information on MindLinc, Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Executive Director, MindLinc

e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com  Phone: 919-303-9704

Durham, NC October 24, 2012 – MindLinc-Duke a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced its release of new Call Center functionality to support its customers in managing crisis calls, referrals and marketing.

MindLinc’s call center functionality provides customers with the tools for their call center staff to effectively and efficiently capture and log caller data, evaluate and triage, and manage referrals and marketing.

Deo Garlock, MindLinc’s Executive Director states, “We are pleased to add this feature to help out behavioral health providers. MindLinc’s easy-to-use interface streamlines the telephone interview process for call center staff with call logs for callers that may call multiple times, a referral management database for easy access and referral management, and reporting to help track and manage calls, referrals and marketing efforts. “

 About MindLinc

MindLinc’s meaningful-use-certified, fully configurable EMR-EPM system helps customers improve quality and outcomes of care, productivity, financial performance, and achieve regulatory compliance.  MindLinc serves as the industry leader in EMR functionality, decision support and outcomes to best position our customers to meet current and future challenges (e.g., P4P and ACOs):

Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow

Easy to Use – matches user’s workflow, intuitive, write-once, rolls information forward

Call Center – manage and track callers/patients, calls, and referrals

Comprehensive, industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse assessments and functionality (e.g., over 200 clinician and client rated scales)

ASAM based Substance Evaluation – provides level of care recommendation and diagnosis

Measurement – Outcomes Tools: Innovative visual tools measure symptoms, outcomes, progress toward achieving treatment objectives & discharge and follow-up care using embedded treatment progress & outcomes tracker

Decision Support Rules Engine - rules & alerts to meet State, Federal, Regulatory requirements – guides clinicians to enforce and meet requirements and improve quality of care

Dashboard and Task Manager – Customizable Dashboard to view client, user and organization-specific information; Tasks linked into area to do your work, User & Supervisor Alerts

Integrate patient and family involvement self-reported information and feedback into treatment, follow-up/track outcomes with client -rated scales

Aftercare/Follow-up Management – ability to track clients/alumni, send aftercare rating scales to measure outcomes and satisfaction, decision support tool can provide reminders, provides key information for reporting

Referral Management – track referrals, provide key information and reports to ensure referral source satisfaction, manage and target referring organizations

Benchmark organization performance and identify and implement EBPs using MindLinc’s Global Anonymized Database – world’s largest codified behavioral health database with over 6.8 million encounters all with outcomes

Reporting & Forms Designer- SQL, Comprehensive Standard Reports, Easy Ad Hoc Reporting, Easy Report Designer, Easy Forms Designer

SaaS-Hosted and Client Server delivery Models

MindLinc embeds behavioral health science and research into our EMR technology

For more information on MindLinc, Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Executive Director, MindLinc

e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com  Phone: 919-303-9704

Durham, NC August 15, 2012 – – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced its software MindLinc is ane industry leader in positioning behavioral health providers meet the requirements of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).

“MindLinc is the clear industry leader for outcomes management.  We provide hundreds of industry standard assessments, rating scales, and treatment progress and outcome measures,” states Chief Medical and Technology Officer, Ken Gersing, MD.  Deo Garlock MindLinc Executive Director adds, “We use our global anonymized data warehouse to provide benchmark data for individual clinicians and organizations to help them improve outcomes. In the ACO era, payment is tied to demonstrating outcomes, managing cost-effective treatment, integrating care and information across the ACO, and achieving efficiencies.  MindLinc provides our customers the all the tools to meet these critical ACO requirements.”

MindLinc’s Decision Support Engine provides customers with the ability to guide and enforce clinical, regulatory, and pay-for-performance/payor rules. This powerful tool allows customers to apply rules on any field to:

• Establish and enforce clinical practices and guidelines to monitor outcomes, severity of illness, and treatment progress and provide prompts and alerts to manage care at the most cost-effective treatment level
• Capture necessary data to meet Pay for Performance requirements
• Monitor Suicidal Risk Factors (continuously monitors high risk factors)
• Implement Evidence Based Practices

MindLinc’s Global Data Warehouse and reporting provides customers with the ability to benchmark individual and organization performance. With this information customers can:

• Demonstrate to ACOS their ability to track and manage outcomes to win the ACO contract over less sophisticated behavioral health competitors
• Demonstrate positive effects of behavioral health treatment on client outcomes to improve negotiation position for payments from ACO
• Track performance, identify outliers and take action to improve

MindLinc’s robust functionality seamlessly integrates scheduling, eligibility-authorization, registration, task management, clinical care at all treatment levels, risk and outcome management, communication across all providers, and referral management.

MindLinc supports information exchange in any environment including an ACO. MindLinc’s highly experienced interface specialists use industry-best interface tools to move information across applications in real-time.  By design and applying our tools, skilled staff and interface experience we can handle any data exchange desired by MHS. Our interface skill set, tools, and experience covers standard HL7, XML, WSI SOAP and non-standard custom interfaces using, text files, CSV, and PDF data exchanges. Our certified Continuity of Care Document (CCD) interface exchanges HITSP C32 v2.5 CCD documents.  MindLinc supports RHIO/HIE, ACO, intra-health system interfaces and information exchanges.

About MindLinc

MindLinc-Duke’s ONC-ARRA Meaningful Use Certified Behavioral Health HIPAA-compliant comprehensive, clinician/patient-centric workflow electronic behavioral health care management and decision support system seamlessly integrates scheduling, eligibility-authorization, registration, clinical care at all treatment levels, task management, and billing-claims management to help customers’ improve quality and outcomes of care,  productivity, and financial and organizational performance.

• Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow
• Easy-to-Use
• Industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse functionality
• Integrates patient and family involvement
• Decision Support Rules Engine
• Global Anonymized Database to Benchmark organization performance, and improve care
• Increase revenues: P4P, ePrescribing, research, grants
• Exchange and integrate information across  ACOs, HIEs/RHIOs
• Hosted or Client Server delivery model

• Measurement and Outcomes Tools

For additional information on MindLinc, please visit www.mindlinc.com, or

Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Executive Director, MindLinc Behavioral Health EHR

e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com  Phone: 919-303-9704

Durham, NC June 11, 2012 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology provider, announced New River Valley Community Services (NRVCS) headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia has selected MindLinc as their comprehensive behavioral health EHR solution.

“Because we serve literally thousands of individuals each year and have over 650 employees, the transition to Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a significant change for our organization,” notes Dr. Harvey Barker, Executive Director of NRVCS. “While protection of health information and confidentiality are our primary concern, we also needed a software system that was both efficient and effective for our staff to utilize.”

“I believe MindLinc will become a true asset to our overall operations as we continue to prepare for health care reform,” adds Barker.

“We’re extremely excited to be providing our technology and services to New River Valley Community Services because of their excellent clinical reputation, innovation, commitment to improving behavioral health care, and outstanding service to their communities.  Our MindLinc software and staff will provide exemplary support to NRVCS’  business operations, allowing them to seamlessly provide existing services and to integrate behavioral health care services with primary health care. Their overall goal is to improve community health and MindLinc will support that goal,” notes MindLinc Executive Director Deo Garlock.

About New River Valley Community Services

Founded in 1969, New River Valley Community Services’ (NRVCS) serves the children, adults and families of Floyd, Giles, Montgomery and Pulaski counties, and the City of Radford, by providing community-based programs for mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance use disorders, and related prevention services that promote independence and improved quality of life.

About MindLinc

MindLinc-Duke’s ONC-ARRA Meaningful Use Certified Behavioral Health HIPAA-compliant comprehensive, clinician/patient-centric workflow electronic behavioral health care management and decision support system seamlessly integrates scheduling, eligibility-authorization, registration, clinical care at all treatment levels, task management, and billing-claims management to help customers’ improve quality and outcomes of care,  productivity, and financial and organizational performance.

• Fully Customer-Configurable to Match User’s Workflow
• Easy-to-Use
• Industry-best psychiatric and substance abuse functionality
• Integrates patient and family involvement
• Decision Support Rules Engine
• Global Anonymized Database to Benchmark organization performance, and improve care
• Increase revenues: P4P, ePrescribing, research, grants
• Hosted or Client Server delivery model
• Measurement and Outcomes Tools

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.