About
Who We Are:
Trac9 Informatics integrates gold-standard clinical assessments and proprietary data analytics to deliver insights and predictive outcomes that improve clinical efficacy. The team at Trac9 Informatics is committed to improving the lives and clinical outcomes for those in treatment for mental health and substance use disorders through evidence-based science.
Assists with Accreditation Requirements
The Joint Commission:
Assists with requirements under standard CTS.03.01.09
- Trac9 monitors an individual’s treatment progress using standardized assessments.
- Trac9 collects, scores, and displays results automatically.
- Trac9 provides the means to evaluate outcomes of care for your clients.
CARF Accreditation:
Assists with requirements under the 2018 Behavioral Health Standards – Section M.2, M.4-5
- All instruments used in Trac9 are reliable, valid, comprehensive, and accurate.
- Provides a wide variety of data on substance use disorder populations served.
- Assess both pathology and resilience factors.
Core Features of Trac9
Transcend beyond just outcomes. Trac9 Informatics incorporates sophisticated symptom tracking, program optimization tools, and predictive analytics to improve facility specific client outcomes and clinician efficacy.
Clinical Monitoring
Monitor client symptoms in real-time with automatic scoring and graphing.
Facility-Level Supervision
Monitor multiple facilities in real-time. Identify targeted areas of growth before problems occur.
AMA Predictive Analytics
Predictive statistics identify clients at high risk of treatment failure based on a response pattern to the first assessment.
Clinical Supervision
Monitor average clinician results for patient outcomes in real-time. Identify unique strengths in staff.
Outcomes Data
Outcome assessments collected one time per month, for 12 months, after treatment. Data is collected anonymously to ensure honesty.
Powered by Science
Trac9 Informatics utilizes gold standard assessments that have been scientifically shown to be associated with sustained, long-term recovery.
Measures Resilience and Pathology Factors
As the addiction treatment field moves more towards data-driven outcomes, Trac9 Informatics measures combined resilience and pathology factors. Assessing variables associated with successful recovery enables Trac9 Informatics to provide insight into client progress during treatment and optimization of treatment programs. Trac9 Informatics also uses facility specific predictive analytics to help reduce the number of AMAs and increase positive treatment outcomes.
9 Individual Factors Measured using Gold Standard Assessments
Monitor client progress with factors scientifically proven to be associated with long term recovery. Assessing a combination of resilience and pathology factors offers an in-depth perspective on client growth during the treatment continuum. Analyzing the unique profile of factors per client, and how they are changing over time, enhances treatment effectiveness and optimizes individual care.
Enhancing Outcomes with Data
Trac9 Informatics provides visibility at every level. With personalized data, clinicians, administrators, and executives can make better choices to improve client success. Trac9 Informatics also keeps you connected with former patients, providing monthly outcome assessments for a year. Standardized data offers greater accountability for clients and treatment centers alike. With success metrics and potential pitfalls at your fingertips, you can be more proactive for greater success throughout the client care continuum.
Our Leadership:
Encompassing decades of academic, clinical, and policy excellence, our leadership team, shares a passionate commitment to improving the lives of those in need of addiction and mental health treatment as well as the providers that serve them.
Kitty Harris, Ph.D.
President
Jared P. Dempsey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Sarah Wilson
Technology Operations Officer
Kadyn Short
IT SUPERVISOR
Kitty Harris, Ph.D.
President
Dr. Kitty Harris serves as President of NLW Partners, which is dedicated to consulting, education, science and research for addiction recovery. She is a noted author and public speaker, and presents at national conferences, workshops and seminars on topics including adolescence; collegiate addiction and recovery; and communication, civility and leadership. She served for twelve years as the Director of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery (CSAR) at Texas Tech University. Under her leadership, the CSAR gained national attention, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, on the NBC Today Show, CNN, and featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The New York Times. Dr. Harris is the author of Women and Recovery-Finding Hope, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and co-editor of Substance Abuse Recovery in College, published by Springer.
Jared P. Dempsey, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Jared P. Dempsey, Ph.D. serves as Chief Scientist at NLW Partners. Dr. Dempsey is actively involved in neurological and physiological research in addiction. Recent publications include preliminary evidence for a biological marker of addiction recovery, non-conscious emotional response to drug stimuli, and the influence of social anxiety on addiction treatment. Dr. Dempsey has also served as an expert reviewer for the Journal of Motivation and Emotion, Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, American Journal on Addictions, Addiction, Psychiatry Research, European Psychiatry, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Dr. Dempsey was also actively involved in the development of a comprehensive symptom tracking and outcome data collection tool for addiction treatment, TRAC9.
Sarah Wilson
Technology Operations Officer
Sarah is the Technology Operations Officer at Trac9 Informatics and is actively involved in product development. Sarah also assists with algorithm modeling and oversees notification of facilities for high-risk clients.
Kadyn Short
IT SUPERVISOR
Kadyn is the IT Supervisor at Trac9 Informatics and is actively involved in creating reports, communicating with clients, and answering support tickets. He is extremely skilled at technical support and real-time system investigations to help provide necessary solutions. Kadyn is also experienced in technical communication, and customer relations, while he effectively teaches new users how to utilize the multifaceted system.
Kadyn supports customers across the nation utilizing various mediums such as email, video conferencing and phone calls. Kadyn excels in product investigation to identify coding errors and works with the technology vendor to address these issues. He is versed in Rscript and evaluates performance of Trac9’s proprietary algorithm. Kadyn’s broad skill set and work ethic allow him to work in many capacities of the technical arm at Trac9 Informatics.
“Trac9 Informatics is the only system that allows us to scientifically validate the results of our individualized clinical care and truly set ourselves apart.”
Tara Treatment Center
In Loving Memory“Trac9 Informatics is the only system that allows us to scientifically validate the results of our individualized clinical care and truly set ourselves apart.”
