Summary: Our guest today is Brook West, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Valant -- one of the leading Behavioral Health EHRs.As the Behavioral Health market moves toward direct integration with primary care we turn our focus toward EHR software vendors that are already using new technology to deliver solutions.Vendors that have superior credibility and credentials in Behavioral Health, attract quality leadership, and possess an unparalleled infrastructure. Our listeners know that Behavioral Health is our passion. The Valant team will have a booth at this years National Council on Addiction Disorders held in Denver, Co. Read the full blog article HERE. What problems does the Valant platform purport to solve for Community Behavioral Health and the Medicaid market? How is the Valant platform designed to solve these problems? How is Valant uniquely positioned to bring value to this market? Why can’t current Electronic Health Record vendors do what Valant is doing? What about security in cloud architecture? Some of the criteria at everythingEHR for for choosing a EHR vendor is that the CEO must be a clinician, the company must have Behavioral Health providers, former insurance auditors, software engineers, etc. on staff. What is Valant's stance on this? There is a great blend of culture at Valant with male and female leadership. This has always impressed us. Why has Valant kept this kind of culture going? What is Valant's stance on where Behavioral Health technology is headed? Valant started with 3 people on staff in 2005. Where are you with staff now? If you could share one thing with the Community Behavioral Health Market, what would it be?
