The operating intelligence layer for behavioral healthcare

Behavioral health runs on hindsight. PraxisOne enables foresight.

PraxisOne connects the clinical, operational, and behavioral signals that already exist in your environment, identifies what requires attention, and turns intelligence into accountable action — with human oversight and an auditable path from signal to resolution.

Works with your existing Electronic Medical Record AI-enabled and human-governed Built for behavioral healthcare Designed for enterprise trust.

  • Built by behavioral health operators and clinicians
  • AI-enabled and human-governed
  • Designed for existing clinical workflows
  • Enterprise security and governance from inception

PraxisOne is a software platform for behavioral healthcare organizations. It unifies the clinical, operational, and behavioral information already scattered across your systems, surfaces what needs attention now, and turns it into prioritized, accountable action — with your team always in control.

Why we built PraxisOne

Behavioral health teams make high-stakes decisions every day, often with fragmented information and too little time. Too often, the signal that mattered was there all along — just buried, or seen too late. We built PraxisOne to change that: to bring the whole picture into focus while there's still time to act, so the people doing the work can better protect the people in their care.

The name is the mission. Praxis is Greek for the moment insight becomes action. One is the single, unified team we form with our partners. Together, PraxisOne means exactly what we do — turn insight into action, as one.

The Problem

People shouldn't have to be the integration layer.

Behavioral health teams are forced to reconcile information across the Electronic Medical Record, incident systems, observation tools, staffing processes, handoffs, policies, and manual communication. Critical signals may exist — but no single operating layer determines what matters now, what must happen next, who owns it, and whether the workflow closed.

Electronic Medical RecordNotesOrdersObservationsIncidentsPoliciesHandoffsOne connected signal

Our Focus

A technology partner for behavioral healthcare — at every level of care.

We work alongside providers across inpatient, residential, and outpatient care for mental health and substance use — and alongside the Local Mental Health Authorities (LMHAs) and payers responsible for whole communities. We bring the analytics and behavioral-health operational experience to turn fragmented data into visibility — helping our partners maximize every level of care, serve more patients, steward resources responsibly, and make the value of care visible, including the measures that matter in value-based care. Always with human oversight.

For Local Mental Health Authorities

See the whole system. Serve the whole community.

Local Mental Health Authorities carry the responsibility for a whole community's behavioral health — often across many counties, providers, and levels of care. PraxisOne brings the analytics and behavioral-health operational experience to turn that fragmented, system-wide data into a single line of sight — so authorities can see where care is thin, direct resources where they matter most, and demonstrate the value of the services they fund. You remain the community's answer; we help you see far enough to give a better one.

Why Now

The pressure on behavioral health has never been higher.

Four forces are converging — and the teams that get ahead of them will define the next decade of care.

Stretched teams

Overloaded clinical teams and high turnover keep draining institutional knowledge.

Rising safety scrutiny

Seclusion, restraint, and adverse-event practices face growing regulatory and public scrutiny.

Survey & liability pressure

CMS requirements, Joint Commission and CARF accreditation standards, and rising liability exposure increase the cost of incomplete workflows.

Outcome-based reimbursement

Payers increasingly tie dollars to outcomes and complete, well-documented care.

The information to get ahead of all of this already exists — scattered across systems. PraxisOne makes it actionable, now.

Haleux by PraxisOne

The Haleux Platform

Continuous operational visibility for the teams responsible for care.

Haleux operates continuously in the background, helping care teams identify priority workflows, coordinate follow-through, and preserve evidence of completion.

The PraxisOne Risk Engine

One engine. From insight to action.

PraxisOne unifies fragmented clinical and behavioral data, applies a predictive risk engine, and turns the result into prioritized action, designed to surface rising risk during the shift — while there's still time to act.

  1. 01

    Unify

    Unify every signal

    Brings clinical data and behavioral signals together into one longitudinal view, connecting sources that are typically fragmented across separate systems.

  2. 02

    Analyze

    Analyze with the risk engine

    A predictive risk engine scores risk continuously, designed to surface rising risk during the shift — while there's still time to act.

  3. 03

    Act

    Act earlier

    Surfaces prioritized, explainable risk so care teams can see who may need attention now — designed to turn insight into timely action.

PraxisOne is designed to look ahead.

Predictive, explainable, and built for the realities of behavioral healthcare.

  • Clinical + behavioral data unification
  • Predictive risk scoring
  • Explainable outputs
  • Prioritized worklists

One Platform, Two Experiences

One platform. Two connected experiences.

PraxisOne — the companyHaleux — the operating intelligence platform

Haleux Care

The core — frontline clinical and workflow execution.

Helps frontline and clinical teams identify priority signals, understand what requires review, and coordinate time-sensitive actions within existing workflows.

Haleux Assure

Extends Haleux Care with enterprise visibility.

Builds on Haleux Care to give clinical, quality, risk, and executive leaders a cross-site view of workflow closure, exceptions, escalation, and supporting evidence.

How Haleux Works

From data to evidence — a continuous loop.

Powered by PraxisOne's patent-pending closed-loop architecture — turning fragmented signals into accountable, auditable action.

  1. Data

    Connect relevant clinical and operational signals.

  2. Context

    Understand the patient and workflow around those signals.

  3. Risk

    Identify meaningful changes, gaps, and exceptions.

  4. Action

    Support ownership, follow-up, and appropriate escalation.

  5. Evidence

    Create an auditable trail from signal through resolution.

From signal to resolution.

Every critical workflow has a state — and PraxisOne is designed to understand all of it.

  • Patient state
  • Risk state
  • Required action
  • Owner
  • Due time
  • Completion status
  • Escalation pathway
  • Evidence

Fits the systems you already use.

Haleux works with your existing Electronic Medical Record and is single sign-on (SSO) enabled. It draws directly from the systems your teams already use and connects them into one operating view. Haleux is designed to minimize new workflow burden and duplicate data entry by drawing from the systems and information already in use.

From there, Haleux ingests relevant clinical, operational, and workflow data according to each organization's approved architecture — labs, vitals, observation rounds, histories and physicals, psychiatric evaluations, nursing assessments, and clinical assessments — along with other approved sources in the Electronic Medical Record. Structured or unstructured, Haleux integrates approved data, analyzes it, and deploys it as actionable insight through the product.

Tier 1 · Existing Systems

  • Electronic Medical Record
  • Orders
  • Notes
  • Observations
  • Incidents
  • Policies

Tier 2 · PraxisOne Operating Intelligence

  • Context
  • Rules
  • Risk Intelligence
  • Workflow Orchestration

Tier 3 · Clinical & Operational Action

  • Front Line
  • Supervisors
  • Leadership
  • Compliance

We're not asking you to replace your Electronic Medical Record. We're making the information across your existing environment more actionable.

One intelligence layer. Different views of what matters.

Front Line

What needs my attention now?

  • Patient context
  • Changes
  • Exceptions
  • Open actions
  • Handoffs

Clinical Leadership

Where is workflow breaking?

  • Unresolved actions
  • Escalation delays
  • Risk concentration
  • Workflow friction

Executive Leadership

Where is exposure growing?

  • Safety
  • Compliance
  • Payer
  • Operational
  • Liability indicators

Value Creation

Every dollar protected is a dollar returned.

Better care. Stronger organization. Real return.

The value of getting behavioral health right compounds. Every preventable event avoided, every claim that never materializes, every audit you're ready for is capital that stays inside the organization instead of leaking out through liability premiums, litigation, settlements, and clawbacks. And as regulatory scrutiny in behavioral health rises — with the DOJ and OIG sharpening their focus on fraud, waste, and abuse — the opportunity to protect that capital has never been larger.

That value doesn't favor one kind of organization over another. Private-equity and for-profit operators, nonprofit and mission-driven providers, and the public authorities accountable to whole communities are all mission-minded — and all answerable to a budget. Every dollar protected serves both at once: it strengthens the care patients receive and the financial foundation that sustains it. For every kind of owner, better care and a healthier balance sheet stop being a trade-off.

PraxisOne creates that value at the source. Haleux Care brings governance to the front line — better patient care, complete and defensible documentation, and continuous regulatory awareness at the point of decision. Haleux Assure operationalizes QAPI, turning quality assurance and performance improvement into a continuous, evidence-backed discipline.

Think of it as a halo. Haleux wraps an always-on layer of oversight around your patients and the people who care for them — surfacing the safety, documentation, and compliance signals that matter while there's still time to act. Always on, always in support of your team's judgment, never a replacement for it.

The result is an organization that's safer, more defensible, and more valuable — where doing right by patients and doing right by the balance sheet finally point in the same direction.

Our North Star

Increase the percentage of safety-critical workflow actions closed on time with complete evidence.

Measure what matters.

As PraxisOne is adopted, these are the operational signals we help organizations move:

  • Earlier recognition
  • Faster escalation
  • More reliable workflow completion
  • Stronger handoffs
  • Fewer documentation gaps
  • Greater operational visibility
  • More complete evidence

These will be replaced with validated PraxisOne metrics as pilots complete.

Anchor Partner Measurement Framework

What we measure with every anchor partner.

Primary platform measures

Most directly attributable to PraxisOne

  • Percentage of safety-critical actions closed on time
  • Median time from signal identification to review
  • Median time from review to required action
  • Number of overdue or unresolved workflows
  • Percentage of escalations completed according to policy
  • Completeness of evidence supporting workflow closure
  • Handoff completion and exception rates

Near-term operational indicators

Influenced more indirectly

  • Observation-policy adherence
  • Documentation exception resolution
  • Pending order follow-through
  • Escalation reliability
  • Time leaders spend locating information and following up manually
  • Variation in workflow performance across shifts or locations

Longer-term outcomes

PraxisOne may help organizations influence — not guarantee

  • Adverse event trends
  • Restraint and seclusion utilization
  • Elopement and observation-related events
  • Patient and family complaints
  • Staff burden and retention
  • Liability exposure
  • Cost and reimbursement performance

The Mechanism

The PraxisOne Haleux Platform Flywheel

  1. 1Fewer incidents
  2. 2Better-supported staff
  3. 3Staff longevity & retention
  4. 4Better patient outcomes
  5. 5Treatment completion (fewer AMA discharges)
  6. 6Less admin burden (survey & adverse mgmt)
  7. 7Service-line expansion
  8. 8Financial health & reinvestment
  1. 1Fewer incidents
  2. 2Better-supported staff
  3. 3Staff longevity & retention
  4. 4Better patient outcomes
  5. 5Treatment completion (fewer AMA discharges)
  6. 6Less admin burden (survey & adverse mgmt)
  7. 7Service-line expansion
  8. 8Financial health & reinvestment

The Compounding Value

Every trend reinforces the next

Each improvement funds the next: fewer incidents better support staff, stronger retention deepens institutional knowledge, more patients complete treatment, and freed-up leadership capacity expands service lines — bending adverse indicators down while operational value climbs.

Observation-policy adherence

Directional shape only — no values shown

Seclusion & restraint

Directional shape only — no values shown

Staff turnover

Directional shape only — no values shown

Documentation completeness

Directional shape only — no values shown

Staff retention

Directional shape only — no values shown

Against medical advice

Directional shape only — no values shown

Survey management

Directional shape only — no values shown

Patients served

Directional shape only — no values shown

Directional and illustrative — conceptual shapes PraxisOne is designed to influence, not guaranteed outcomes or actual customer results. Results vary by organization.

Want to see these proven in your organization?

Discuss an Anchor Partnership

We don't promise outcomes. We change the conditions that create them.

Haleux is built to ease the daily burden of ensuring every patient receives the care they deserve. As proactive care becomes the everyday habit, our team's 75 years of combined leadership experience in behavioral health tells us what tends to follow:

A lighter day, and stronger retention.

When teams can deliver great care without fighting their tools, the work gets more sustainable — supporting improved employee retention.

Safety and liability exposure.

PraxisOne is designed to support earlier recognition, more reliable follow-through, and stronger evidence — factors organizations use to manage safety and liability exposure.

Better patient experiences.

Timely, consistent care helps teams improve the patient experience and address sources of dissatisfaction and complaints earlier.

Potential enterprise impact

By improving recognition, follow-through, escalation, and evidence, PraxisOne may help organizations influence staff burden, operational cost, treatment completion, reimbursement performance, and liability exposure. These outcomes depend on implementation, clinical operations, and organizational context.

Outcomes vary by organization and are not guaranteed; the above reflects expected directional benefits based on our team's experience.

Who We Are

We didn't study the problem from the outside. We ran it.

Built in Greater Nashville — one of the nation's leading healthcare ecosystems.

Headquartered in Franklin, TN, PraxisOne is rooted in one of the nation's leading healthcare ecosystems — surrounded by the systems, operators, and clinical expertise that define modern care, and wired into the networks behavioral health leaders trust.

PraxisOne, Inc. · Franklin, TN · Greater Nashville Area

Downtown Nashville skyline featuring the AT&T Building

The name is the mission. Praxis is Greek for the moment insight becomes action; One is the single, unified team we form with our partners. That's who we are — one team, turning insight into action alongside the people we serve.

Founders

The team behind the operating intelligence platform.

Dwight Lacy

Dwight Lacy

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

Dwight Lacy is a behavioral health executive with more than two decades leading multi-site organizations across national healthcare systems, including Universal Health Services and Acadia Healthcare. He has led organizations from single-facility operations to national, multi-site systems of care, holding enterprise operating responsibility across complex behavioral health businesses. A former Chair-Elect and Trustee of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH), Dwight completed executive education in healthcare AI strategy and governance at Harvard Medical School. At PraxisOne, he leads enterprise strategy, commercialization, partnerships, and corporate governance.

Sejal Mehta, MD

Sejal Mehta, MD

Co-Founder, President & Chief Medical Strategy Officer

Dr. Sejal Mehta is a triple board-certified psychiatrist — in Adult, Addiction, and Child & Adolescent psychiatry — with more than 25 years of clinical practice and leadership caring for behavioral health's most vulnerable populations. She has founded and led organizations across the continuum of care, with deep expertise in clinical strategy, patient safety, and translating clinical standards into product logic. At PraxisOne, Dr. Mehta owns clinical strategy and medical governance — ensuring the platform's recommendations are clinically sound, explainable, and accountable to human judgment.

Brittany Sperry, LCSW

Brittany Sperry, LCSW

Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer

Brittany Sperry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and approved clinical supervisor with more than 20 years in behavioral health across all levels of care, including leadership roles at Universal Health Services and Acadia Healthcare. Her expertise spans clinical operations, program design, quality and accreditation, and frontline implementation. At PraxisOne, Brittany owns the translation of clinical operations into deployable, adoptable workflows — ensuring what the platform asks of care teams fits how care is actually delivered.

Executive Leadership

Operators steering the business.

Dmitry Kagansky

Dmitry Kagansky

Chief Technology Officer

Dmitry Kagansky is a technology leader with decades of experience across the private and public sectors, including a leadership role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and service as Chief Technology Officer for the State of Georgia. His expertise spans scalable cloud architecture, security, data governance, integration, and reliability. At PraxisOne, Dmitry owns the platform's architecture, security, and engineering — building for enterprise-grade scale, integration, and trust.

Andrew Sartoris

Andrew Sartoris

Chief Strategy Officer

Andrew Sartoris is a healthcare executive with decades of experience across leading organizations including HCA Healthcare, Regent Surgical Health, and Deloitte, and a Vanderbilt University alumnus. A Nashville native, he brings deep fluency in healthcare operations, strategy, and commercialization. At PraxisOne, Andrew owns enterprise strategy, strategic partnerships, the commercial model, and health-system buyer relationships.

Built by operators — not observers.

PraxisOne is a behavioral-health-first technology company in the Greater Nashville area, built by operators — not observers — who have lived inside the workflows we now make smarter, turning the data you already have into proactive, in-the-moment care.

Our founders and leaders have operated behavioral health at national scale, practiced at the bedside, and built secure technology inside a Fortune 500 company and state government. Collective experience includes Universal Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, Amazon Web Services, the State of Georgia, and Deloitte.

Reflects the collective prior experience of the PraxisOne team.

What we believe.

Patients behind every signal.

Every data point represents a person. We build to protect them.

Trust is earned, then proven.

Security and governance aren't a checkbox — they're a discipline we practice every day.

Precision over noise.

We surface what matters, when it matters, so teams act with confidence instead of alert fatigue.

Scale at your pace.

We meet customers where they are and grow their capability as they're ready.

Governance, Security & Compliance

Built to protect our customers' business as fiercely as our own.

PraxisOne operates in the most trust-sensitive corner of technology. We've engineered our policies, procedures, testing, redundancy, and audit trails to meet the standards healthcare and enterprise partners expect.

Enterprise-reviewed

Our first anchor partner completed a multi-month health-system IT governance and security process, reviewing and approving PraxisOne's technology stack, data handling, and security measures for integration.

Compliance on a disciplined roadmap

A SOC 2 readiness program is underway, and a HITRUST readiness assessment is underway. Our platform is designed to support HIPAA-regulated deployments, with appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.

Enterprise-grade security

Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with secure data-ingestion monitoring, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, audit trails, and tested redundancy — backed by documented policies and procedures.

Seasoned technology governance

Board-level oversight and leadership spanning more than 30 years in data handling, security, and healthcare. Our IT leadership and governance has led inside Federal and State entities and within a Fortune 500 company — instilling rich data-governance and security protocols accordingly.

  • SOC 2 readiness underway
  • HITRUST readiness assessment underway
  • 42 CFR Part 2
  • TRAIGA (Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act)
  • Texas HB 300
  • Built on AWS
  • Encrypted in transit & at rest
  • Role-based access

AI-enabled. Clinician-governed.

Designed to augment clinical judgment — not replace it.

PraxisOne is designed around human accountability. AI helps identify, contextualize, and prioritize. Clinicians remain responsible for clinical decisions.

Explainable

Recommendations tied to source signals and rationale.

Human Override

Authorized users maintain control.

Policy-Bound

Workflow logic reflects facility protocols.

Auditable

Actions, recommendations, overrides, and escalations are recorded.

Founding Anchor Partner Program

Built with behavioral health leaders — not just for them.

PraxisOne is engaging a limited group of behavioral health organizations to configure priority workflows, establish baseline measures, and validate a repeatable enterprise deployment model.

What founding partners gain

  • Early access to Haleux Care and Haleux Assure
  • Structured input into roadmap priorities
  • Preferential founding-partner terms
  • Hands-on implementation with our clinical and technical founders

Who we're looking for

Behavioral health organizations — inpatient, outpatient, and residential — ready to lead on patient safety, quality, and operational excellence.

See It In Action

One patient. One clear picture of what matters now.

Illustrative concept · sample data · not the actual product UI

Sample Patient

Adult Unit · Bed 12 · MRN ••••4821 · Day 3 of stay

Needs attention

Workflow Priority

Elevated

Operational workflow priority — not a diagnosis or substitute for clinical judgment.

Why — example signals

  • Safety check overdue
  • New observation logged
  • + more

What needs to happen next

  • Safety observation round

    Owner: Care team · Due soon

    Overdue
  • Follow-up review

    Owner: Care team · Due today

    Open

Full patient view available in a live demo

DataContextRiskActionEvidence

The full Haleux experience — signals, prioritization, and workflow orchestration — is shown in a live, guided demo.

Illustrative concept for demonstration only. Patient, priority labels, signals, and tasks are fictional sample data — not real patients, not actual product outputs, and not clinical guidance. The final product interface may differ.

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PraxisOne, Inc. · Franklin, TN · Greater Nashville Area · (615) 823-1042

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