Guide

The Definitive Guide to the Intelligent Care Record: An AI-Native EHR for Behavioral Health

By Michael Arevalo, Psy.D., PMP | Last updated: July 2026 

Read our definitive guide to learn all about the Intelligent Care Record and its profound impact on behavioral health organizations.

AI-native behavioral health EHR supporting intelligent care records, clinical documentation, and coordinated patient care.

 

    

Core Takeaways

  • Built for Specialty Complexity: Designed specifically for behavioral health and IDD, Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record unifies clinical, operational, and financial data into a single, connected experience across multiple service lines.

  • Ethically Built AI Is the Answer: Ethically built AI tools like the Intelligent Care Record help organizations prevent harm and mitigate bias, while keeping human expertise at the helm of decision-making.

  • Providers Are Wary: In a recent survey, 30% of healthcare leaders listed data breaches as their first or second concern regarding AI in healthcare, making the need for the Intelligent Care Record's secure, unified system all the more important.

  • The “Native AI” Advantage: The Intelligent Care Record’s native AI is built directly into the platform’s core data architecture from inception, enabling the system to understand relationships between clinical data points and reflect clinical realities.

  • The Best of Behavioral Health Tech: Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record supports care coordination, decision-making, and united data analysis, giving providers an all-in-one solution that enhances clinical care.

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is a unified clinical and operational platform purpose-built for behavioral health organizations. As a next-generation electronic health record (EHR) that’s AI-native by design, it embeds ethically built AI into every aspect of the system, which means organizations get continuous, connected insights to inform confident decision-making.

This guide explores what makes the Intelligent Care Record so powerful, why ethical AI is a must-have in behavioral health today, and how organizations can benefit from a unified solution.

 

    
Chapter 1

The Building Blocks of an AI-Native EHR

The Building Blocks of an AI-Native EHR
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With Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record, advanced artificial intelligence works in the background to inform every workflow and decision point. The system surfaces clinical insights, risk indicators, and priority actions when they matter most, enhancing care while ensuring human experts remain in control of all clinical decisions.

Here’s a detailed overview of Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record, along with a breakdown of the main benefits behavioral health organizations can glean by implementing the system.

What Is the Intelligent Care Record?

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is an AI-powered electronic health record designed specifically for the behavioral health and IDD space. As a more advanced behavioral health EHR, it provides a unified experience that connects clinical and operational insights and evolves with client and staff needs.

What Capabilities Does the Intelligent Care Record Offer?

Several built-in capabilities support enhanced, more efficient care:

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Data Explorer

Providers can ask natural language questions to access trends, clinical risk, and population-based insights, as well as dynamic dashboards with intuitive data visualizations.

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Ask Me

Teams can use the natural language processing (NLP) tool to get accurate client summaries with contextualized insights on progress, history, and emerging concerns.

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Forms and Templates

The system creates structured AI clinical documentation tools aligned with regulatory and reimbursement requirements.

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Reporting and Dashboards

AI-powered data solutions surface custom-built reports using natural-language tools.

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Ambient Listening

The platform generates high-quality notes, which clinicians can review and approve before finalization.

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Scheduling Intelligence

Staff can use scheduling recommendations to support no-show reduction, balance caseloads, and optimize resource utilization, with built-in metrics to track appointment access.

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Workflows

Teams can configure processes, get automatically organized information flows, and document notes in real time to keep care on track.

In the Intelligent Care Record, each capability works in tandem with others to provide a truly connected experience that gives providers a clearer understanding of care.

“Core has just leapfrogged the competition by two years — no one else is anywhere close to having a fully AI-powered EHR."

Healthcare Leader
After viewing a demo of Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record

Why A Traditional Electronic Medical Record Doesn’t Work

Legacy EHRs/EMRs don’t work in behavioral health because they’re not designed for it. They were created for episodic, procedure-based medicine, not the flexible, nuanced care processes that underpin the industry. Research shows that organizations without strong behavioral health EHR software face:

  • Workflow Disruptions. A 2025 study found that EHRs often force clinicians into constant task-switching, excessive system navigation, and redundant documentation.

  • Care Coordination Hurdles. Another study found that EHRs disrupt behavioral health organizations’ communication, care coordination, and data-sharing capabilities, leading to duplicate data entry and manual workarounds.

  • Documentation Errors. Without appropriate documentation templates, the use of traditional EHRs often results in time-consuming manual notetaking, with providers piecing together information from disparate sources.

Unlike a legacy EHR, Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is designed specifically for the ongoing, relational care unique to the behavioral healthcare space.  Compared to standard EHRs, it offers advanced capabilities proven to enhance clinical and operational practice – and as an AI-native electronic health record, it holds the advantage of augmenting the work of individuals in both areas with more in-the-moment information sharing and robust functionality.

Data Role
Traditional EHR
Functions as a passive digital filing cabinet for storage and retrieval.
Intelligent Care Record
Works alongside care teams, surfacing real-time clinical insights as they're needed.
Information Flow
Traditional EHR
Requires manual searching and navigating across multiple screens.
Intelligent Care Record
Organizes and presents contextually relevant data within the current workflow.
Decision Support
Traditional EHR
Relies on human memory to identify gaps or risks in client records.
Intelligent Care Record
Surfaces potential risk indicators and documentation gaps for clinician review through AI clinical documentation, supporting earlier identification of concerns.
AI Integration
Traditional EHR
Uses disconnected "bolt-on" tools or third-party add-ons.
Intelligent Care Record
Built with ethical AI in the foundational architecture.
Care Timing
Traditional EHR
Primarily supports retrospective documentation after care is delivered.
Intelligent Care Record
Supports care teams as care happens, keeping pace with real-time delivery.

While a generic electronic medical record acts as a static data repository, Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is more than a storage system. It’s a powerful clinical intelligence layer, augmenting clinicians’ workflows, workloads, and abilities to serve their clients. In short, it’s the technology behavioral healthcare organizations deserve — and an example of responsible AI in healthcare done right.

   
Chapter 2

Ethical AI and the Intelligent Care Record

Ethical AI and the Intelligent Care Record
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While a traditional EHR usually layers on data privacy safeguards, Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is built from the ground up with embedded ethical practices. Rather than replicating biases and opening up data gaps, the AI-native clinical platform directly tackles ethical concerns of AI in healthcare by prioritizing safety alongside innovation.

This is particularly important in an industry still wary of trusting AI in behavioral health organizations.

How Do Providers Feel About AI in Behavioral Health?

Compared to their peers in primary care and other medical specialties, behavioral health clinicians are far more reluctant to adopt AI tools, primarily due to data privacy and security concerns. Too many healthcare data breaches and biased outputs have occurred, leaving many clinicians rightfully wary of new solutions.

80%
of physicians have adopted AI.
29%
of behavioral health providers use AI at least monthly.
44%
of psychologists have never used AI.

According to NPR, the mental healthcare workforce is interested in AI’s potential, but is pushing back against marketing talk and bolted-on vs. built-in AI tools. The American Psychological Association found that AI adoption remains low due to these primary risks:

Data breaches
 
67%
Social harm
 
64%
Biased outputs due to biased training data
 
63%
Lack of risk mitigation
 
61%
Inaccurate outputs or hallucinations
 
60%

Skepticism around responsible AI in healthcare is a good thing. It keeps organizations cautious of tools that might hinder the work rather than help it. But outright rejecting AI isn’t the answer. Finding an ethically built solution tailor-made for behavioral health is.

Is the Intelligent Care Record Ethically Built?

What Is Ethically Built AI?

Ethically built AI in healthcare is software designed around five core pillars:

  • Transparency

  • Fairness

  • Accountability

  • Safety and security

  • Data privacy and governance

Ethically built solutions have these tenets embedded in the technological architecture, making them more secure and better for informed decision-making.

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is ethically built, as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and the ONC HTI-1 "Transparency" rule are mapped directly into the system’s infrastructure. This means the system's design, logging, and output documentation align with the transparency, accountability, and risk governance requirements outlined in these frameworks. Aligning with these federal standards ensures full clinical visibility, enabling teams to stay in control of their care plans.

The Intelligent Care Record helps behavioral health organizations build trust with clients because, as an AI-native system of record, it prioritizes:

  • Direct Integrations: Tools built directly into Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record allow AI to function within the clinician's existing workflow. This approach provides the deep clinical context necessary for AI to generate accurate insights while keeping data secure within a single, unified system.

  • Data Privacy and Compliance Checks: Rather than treating security as an afterthought, ethically built AI in healthcare adheres to the highest regulatory and security standards, offering real-time compliance trackers and alerts throughout the care journey.

  • Human Oversight: The platform utilizes a “human in the loop” model in which AI surfaces data-backed insights but providers always have the final say on clinical decisions.

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record shifts from “black-box” AI to a model of clinical visibility, meaning clinicians can view the data inputs and logic weighting that generate a risk flag or clinical summary, rather than receiving an output with no traceable rationale. That ownership of decision-making, the confidence it inspires, and Core’s protection of sensitive personal health information (PHI) are absolutely critical as healthcare organizations face sustained and escalating cybersecurity threats.

“This is incredible — I’m absolutely blown away."

Healthcare Leader
After viewing a demo of Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record

The Current State of Data Privacy in Healthcare

The healthcare field had a record-breaking number of data breaches in 2025, impacting more than 57 million people, according to IBM. AI technologies can help optimize care, but in this environment, organizations can’t risk solutions that make ethical concerns of AI in healthcare even worse.

30%
of healthcare leaders ranked data breaches as their first or second top AI concern.
97%
of organizations that faced AI-related security issues didn't have proper access controls in place.
$7.4 million
Average cost of a healthcare organization data breach per incident.

What Do Organizations Need To Protect Client and Operational Data?

Protecting vulnerable data is paramount, and research shows that organizations need advanced tools with enhanced infrastructures that go beyond basic encryption to achieve data protection. Here’s how a traditional EHR for behavioral health compares to an AI-native EHR:

Data Storage
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Treats data storage as passive and records sit until retrieved.
The Intelligent Care Record
Actively monitors access patterns, flags anomalous behavior, and responds to potential breaches in real time.
Data Security
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Struggles to fit free-text clinical notes into structured fields, which puts PHI at risk.
The Intelligent Care Record
Uses natural-language processing to automatically identify and redact sensitive information.
Auditability
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Operates as a black box, making it difficult to verify client data.
The Intelligent Care Record
Creates an auditable pipeline and includes clear data governance policies.
Data Visibility
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Does not surface information on how it arrived at results.
The Intelligent Care Record
Leaves a traceable data trail that clinicians can use to validate AI data.
Training Policies
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Often uses PHI to train external models.
The Intelligent Care Record
Never uses PHI to train external models.
Integration
Traditional Behavioral Health EHR Software
Layers ethical AI practices on top of the system's architecture.
The Intelligent Care Record
Embeds unbiased training, data transparency, and data encryption natively into the solution.

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record supports — rather than replaces — human judgment. Clinicians retain authority to override, modify, or disregard AI-generated outputs, and they always get the final say over clinical decision-making. With human experts at the helm and ethically built AI backing them up, behavioral health organizations are better equipped to provide the high-quality care their clients deserve.

Bolted-On AI Tools vs. Native AI in Behavioral Health

Currently, healthcare organizations have more than 1,200 FDA-approved AI solutions to choose from, and clients have 350,000-plus consumer apps. Not all of these solutions are created equal, and bolted-on solutions just give providers another tool to manage. Native AI built directly into the system’s data model, on the other hand, provides a fully integrated, contextualized solution that responds to organizations’ actual clinical reality.

What Problems Do Bolted-On AI Tools Create

When bolted-on AI tools are layered onto existing systems, these problems commonly occur:

  • Error Duplication: If existing data or data formatting isn’t accurate, the AI’s insights will likely be error prone and not actionable.

  • Disconnections: Bolted-on AI tools struggle to contextualize data within real-world scenarios because they’re always working at one level removed.

  • Clunky Workflows: Staff are more likely to find time-consuming workarounds when they don’t trust the systems that are supposed to help them.

Enterprise behavioral health software powered by AI is supposed to drive efficiencies, but bolted-on tools end up creating more hurdles. Comparatively, an AI-native EHR enables teams to access a comprehensive view of the organization and connect dots between otherwise disparate data points.

What Benefits Does Native AI in Behavioral Health Offer?

Native AI connects operational, clinical, and financial data to give organizations a broader and more accurate picture of their work. With fully integrated AI solutions built specifically for behavioral healthcare, organizations get:

  • Contextualized Analyses: An AI-native clinical platform excels at supporting long-term, narrative-driven pattern recognition that reflects the way behavioral healthcare works. It surfaces actionable information, such as patterns associated with increased relapse vulnerability or potential crisis escalation, to support clinical decision-making.

  • Better and More Personalized Data: Native AI draws from the organization’s full health record, which helps clinicians make data-backed, whole-person decisions that account for the client’s full health picture.

  • Human Oversight: Native AI serves up traceable and explainable insights, leaving an audit-ready trail to support clinician review and documentation defensibility.

At its core, a behavioral health EHR with built-in AI puts people first and helps preserve the trust and client privacy that keeps clients engaged in the long term.

     
Chapter 3

Transforming Workflows With the Intelligent Care Record

Transforming Workflows With the Intelligent Care Record
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“This workflow designer and tracking process flow is so cool. That would make things so much easier!"

Healthcare Leader
After viewing a demo of Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record doesn’t just capture the past like legacy EHRs do. Rather, it informs the present and powers the future, surfacing synthesized insights exactly when clinicians need them. It’s as agile as clinicians, moving flexibly with teams as they work. Here’s what differentiates the Intelligent Care Record from other solutions at every phase of a provider’s day:

Pre-Session Planning
With Traditional Enterprise Behavioral Health Software
Providers must sift through disparate, static notes to reconstruct context before each session, which quickly leads to mental fatigue and burnout.
With the Intelligent Care Record
Providers get instant answers about client histories and emerging concerns from the Ask Me tool, reducing cognitive load and time-consuming manual searching.
Mid-Session Documentation
With Traditional Enterprise Behavioral Health Software
Clinicians are locked into manual note-taking processes during or after sessions, which prevents them from responding to clinical changes in real time.
With the Intelligent Care Record
Clinicians can focus wholly on their client, using AI-powered ambient documentation to capture session content and generate structured notes for review.
Post-Session Analysis
With Traditional Enterprise Behavioral Health Software
Providers must spend time pulling together data from separate systems to manually chart session content and make clinical decisions.
With the Intelligent Care Record
Providers can use the Data Explorer tool to search their dashboard for care trends and clinical risk data, helping reduce gaps in continuity and minimize after-hours charting.

With 93% of behavioral health providers experiencing burnout, according to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, organizations can’t afford solutions that add onto clinicians’ workloads. Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is specifically designed to reduce administrative burden and enhance clinical decision-making at every step of the care journey.

How the Intelligent Care Record Enhances Behavioral Health Care Coordination

Because the Intelligent Care Record is purpose-built for behavioral health, it’s fully equipped to strengthen care coordination — which must occur on several levels:

  • Across Providers: According to the American Hospital Association, 70% of behavioral health clients have a physical comorbidity. Treating one condition means taking the other(s) into account, which requires behavioral health clinicians to effectively coordinate care with other providers.

  • Across Systems: A recent study found that primary care physicians deliver about 40% of mental healthcare, often serving as the first point of contact for clients. Without interoperable systems enabling smooth transitions from PCPs to behavioral healthcare providers, clients can get lost in the system.

  • Across Data Points: Workflows increasingly impact organizations’ finances, but when operational data remains siloed from financial data, organizations struggle to identify and address core issues.

If clinicians don’t have the tools they need to streamline care coordination, they end up reconstructing client histories, manually completing tasks, and risking data errors and burnout in the process.

How Does the Intelligent Care Record Unify Fragmented Systems?

As a comprehensive, AI-native behavioral health platform, the Intelligent Care Record supports care coordination at all levels. It connects all relevant data within a centralized source that providers across the care continuum can access, which helps organizations:

  • Supports Care Continuity: The interoperable system is designed to facilitate smoother care transitions. Depending on integration configuration, clients may not need to repeat intake information across connected providers.

  • Deliver Higher-Quality Care: Having access to intuitive data visualizations enables providers to more easily meet client needs and identify potential risks, such as escalating substance use patterns or deteriorating treatment engagement.

  • Improve Staff Experiences: With a centralized resource for behavioral health care coordination, clinicians spend less time managing information and more time using it.

By bringing all data streams together into a central resource, the Intelligent Care Record is designed to reduce the clinical and operational costs of fragmented data. 

After implementing a strong health information exchange system, hospitals gained:

$2,000
Per-client cost savings
$280,000
Total cost savings
120
minutes/day
Average admin time savings
   

The Intelligent Care Record: Behavioral Health's AI-Native EHR Future

In a healthcare landscape saturated with thousands of technologies — all purporting to generate high-impact results — it can be difficult for organizations to cut through the noise and find the right solution for their specific context. Auditing your organization’s needs, including pain points around workflows, documentation, or billing errors, is a great place to start. 

Then, evaluate vendors using these five questions:

  • Is AI built into the data model, or does it require a separate integration?

  • How does the system handle data that exists outside its native environment?

  • How can the system help address my organization’s specific pain points?

  • What does the implementation timeline look like? What internal resources will implementation require?

  • How do you support staff adoption and workflow change management?

At Core Solutions, we developed Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record according to these key questions and to solve common challenges behavioral healthcare organizations face: fragmented data, time-consuming manual overload, and insights that come after sessions rather than in real time.

Finding the right AI-native EHR isn’t about ripping and replacing your own solution. It’s about looking for a solution like Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record — a comprehensive system with AI as the foundation, not an add-on.

With embedded, AI-powered solutions, the Intelligent Care Record enhances clinical decision-making and care coordination, enabling organizations to more consistently deliver coordinated, data-informed care.

Reach out to Core today for a free demo to see the platform in action.

Sources & Resources

Administration of Emergency Medicine (2014): Observational Study and Estimate of Cost Savings from Use of a Health Information Exchange in an Academic Emergency Department

American Hospital Association (2023): 3 Ways to Strengthen Physical and Behavioral Health Integration

American Medical Association (2026): Physician Trends in Digital Health

American Psychological Association (2025): Practitioner Pulse Survey on AI Adoption

Digital Health Journal (2025): Data Privacy in Healthcare: Global Challenges and Solutions

IBM (2025): Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025

JAMA (2025): AI, Health, and Health Care Today and Tomorrow: The JAMA Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (2025): Usability Challenges in Electronic Health Records: Impact on Documentation Burden and Clinical Workflow: A Scoping Review

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health (2021): Assessing Primary Care Contributions to Behavioral Health

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (2020): Electronic Health Record Challenges, Workarounds, and Solutions Observed in Practices Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

National Institute of Standards and Technology (2023): Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (2023): New Study: Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage Will Negatively Impact Society

NPR (2026): AI in the mental health care workforce is met with fear, pushback — and enthusiasm

ONC for Health Information Technology: HTI-1 Regulatory Framework

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2014): Impact of a Health Information Exchange on Resource Use and Medicare-Allowable Reimbursements at 11 Emergency Departments in a Midsized City

FAQs About the Intelligent Care Record, an AI-Native EHR

What is an AI-native EHR?

An AI-native EHR is an electronic health record built with artificial intelligence embedded directly into its core data architecture from the start, rather than layered on top as a separate add-on. This native approach allows the system to understand relationships between clinical data points in real time, surfacing insights, risks, and recommendations as care happens rather than after the fact. By contrast, legacy EHRs with "bolted-on" AI tools work one level removed from the underlying data, which limits context and accuracy. Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record is a leading example of an AI-native EHR, purpose-built for the ongoing, relational care unique to behavioral health.

Is the Intelligent Care Record really an EHR?

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record includes the core capabilities of an EHR, but it represents a broader model powered by AI. It brings together documentation, workflows, and decision support into a single, connected experience where intelligence is embedded throughout, helping teams understand and act on information as it’s created.

How does AI support care teams without replacing clinical judgment?

AI in the Intelligent Care Record surfaces relevant insights, risks, and next steps while keeping care teams in control. Each AI-generated insight includes the underlying data inputs and clinical logic that produced it, allowing clinicians to evaluate relevance, apply professional judgment, and determine appropriate next steps.

What is ethically built AI in healthcare?

Ethically built AI in healthcare is AI-powered software that’s developed and deployed according to five core pillars: transparency, fairness, accountability, security, and data privacy and governance. Ethically built solutions have integrated checks that ensure alignment not only with these pillars but with organizations’ values, helping prevent harm, support human decision-making, and mitigate bias.

How does the Intelligent Care Record support data privacy in healthcare?

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record supports data privacy in healthcare because it’s built with native data encryption and integrated transparency. Data that the solution surfaces is easy to trace and validate, and the system has built-in controls to ensure that humans remain at the helm of decision-making. The advanced system enhances, rather than replaces, human judgment while keeping client and organizational data safe.

How does Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record support documentation and analysis?

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record automates documentation and analysis through AI-powered ambient listening tools that securely capture and structure notes during sessions. Post-session, the platform's Data Explorer tool synthesizes these insights automatically, allowing providers to track treatment trends and analyze clinical risk without spending after-hours "pajama time" on manual data entry.

How does Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record support behavioral health care coordination?

Cx360 Enterprise: The Intelligent Care Record enables seamless data exchange between systems. It also consolidates all aspects of behavioral healthcare management — including clinical decision-making tools, evidence-based workflows, documentation capabilities, revenue cycle management, and more — in one central resource. Intuitive data dashboards and AI-powered insights are designed to surface the right information at the right time to facilitate smooth care transitions. The result is a connected care continuum that reduces administrative burden, supports better clinical decisions, and ultimately drives cost savings across the organization.

About the Author

Mike Arevalo

Author

Michael Arevalo, Psy.D., PMP

Mike Arevalo, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience providing evidence-based treatment and integrating clinical best practices in multiple clinical settings, including community mental health organizations, private practice, university counseling centers, and major healthcare systems such as the VA and Kaiser Permanente. He has a deep commitment to advancing behavioral health through digital innovation and data- driven care. He's led efforts to enhance clinical quality, clinician workflows and decision-making, and optimize patient care within digital therapeutics and national provider network groups.