EHR Implementation in a Behavioral Health Clinic Five Question Fridays: Interview with Anthony Centore, Director, Thrive Boston Counseling. Thrive Boston Counseling is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of individual therapy, life coaching, couples and marriage therapy. Its mission is “to facilitate dramatic improvement in persons’ mental health, happiness, relationships and life success such that clients passionately tell others about our services.” -- Thank you Dr. Centore, for agreeing to participate in our series about EHRs and their impact on health care professionals. What motivated you to start using an EHR? It is in our "DNA" at Thrive to continually try new things that might improve the high-quality of care we provide our clients and patients. We thought that an EHR system would help us to better organize records, and would make records easier to retrieve when there are client requests. -- Was everyone on board with this? If not, how was the decision … [Read more...]
Thrive Boston Counseling Quoted in the Christian Science Monitor
Dr. Anthony Centore and Thrive Boston Counseling were quoted this week in a Thanksgiving article in the Christian Science Monitor titled, "To Fill a Table, The Go Online"! Dr. Centore was the sole expert quoted in the article. The article is currently available online at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1126/p17s01-hfgn.html A short excerpt is provided below: Call it Home for the Holidays 2.0. Whether it's the newly married couple transplanted across the country, or the emotionally troubled 50-something Boston-area businessman...work schedules are turning to the tools of today to find "family" for the big seasonal gatherings. Some experts see a nascent trend with growth potential, especially during tough economic times. "The more mobile we get, the more isolated and lonely people are," says Anthony Centore, a therapist with Thrive Boston, a counseling center in Cambridge, Mass. Many, especially in the younger generation, use the Internet to stay connected to friends – old and … [Read more...]