Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics and Accumedic Computer Systems to Provide Behavioral Electronic Health Record and Practice Management System replacing legacy CMHC software at Porter-Starke Services
Valparaiso, IN – June 20, 2008 – Duke University Behavioral Health Informatics, a leading behavioral healthcare Electronic Health Record technology provider, announced it finalized a contract to provide MindLinc, their comprehensive electronic behavioral health record solution, to Porter-Starke Services in Valparaiso, Indiana to replace its legacy CMHC Systems software.
Porter-Starke will implement MindLinc and Accumedic’s billing solution to help them seamlessly integrate clinical care across all programs and locations, manage regulatory compliance, and improve service delivery and quality of care. Aileen Wehren, Vice President of Systems Administration at Porter-Starke Services states, "Our organization is very eager to implement MindLinc and Accumed. We selected this product because of its outstanding flexibility and configurability, clinical and task management functionality, and ability to help us improve quality of care, productivity and financial performance."
“We’re extremely excited to be providing our technology and services to Porter-Starke because of their excellent clinical reputation, innovation, commitment to improving behavioral health care, and outstanding service to their communities. We believe that this software will provide exemplary support to their business operations, allowing them to seamlessly provide inpatient as well as outpatient service and to integrate behavioral health care services with primary health care. Their overall goal is to improve community health and this software will support that goal.” notes Duke Behavioral Health Informatics Director Deo Garlock.
About Porter-Starke Behavioral Health
Porter-Starke Services is a nonprofit, community-based, mental health organization serving the needs of individuals and families in Porter and Starke Counties. In operation since 1975, Porter-Starke Services Inc. offers a wide variety of behavioral health care services including outpatient therapy, psychiatry, inpatient care, partial hospitalization, day treatment, residential and addiction treatment services. With a commitment to reduction of behavioral health illness and addictions Porter-Starke Services, Inc. focuses on continued development and improvement of core services, as well as the integration of behavioral health care with primary health. It is through integrated service delivery that the individual and the collective health of the community can be enhanced. Porter-Starke Services Inc. is dedicated to Health, Balance and Hope.
About MindLinc
MindLinc is built on the principles of offering quality products, superb support and service, rapid implementation, low cost of ownership, and high user satisfaction. MindLinc’s Behavioral Health HIPAA-compliant comprehensive, clinician/patient-centric workflow electronic behavioral health care management and decision support system seamlessly integrates scheduling, eligibility, registration, clinical care at all levels, task management, and billing-claims management to help improve customers’ regulatory compliance, quality and outcomes of care , and productivity, financial, and organizational performance. For additional information on MindLinc (Duke Behavioral Health Informatics), please visit
Contact: A. Deo Garlock, Director
e-mail: deo.garlock@mindlinc.com
Phone: 888-346-MIND (6463)
About Accumedic
Accumedic has been at the forefront of the behavioral health industry for over 30 years. Its industry leading software application, AccuMed(tm), has helped hundreds of organizations adapt to a more efficient, paperless environment. AccuMed(tm) users consistently realize a dramatically shorter payment cycle, improved resource utilization and achieve superior financial management. It includes a fully customizable reporting engine to produce complex industry and government regulatory reports, required by agencies nationwide.
AccuMed(tm) is scalable, flexible, and fully HIPAA compliant. It includes Electronic Billing, Scheduling, On-line Eligibility Verification, Auto Remittance Posting, Accounts Receivables, Document Management, Customized Reports, Patient Appointment Reminder, Credit Card Processing and more.
For additional information about Accumedic, please visit
or contact Accumedic Customer Relations Dept at (800)765-9300.