Demand outstrips supply
Rising mental health needs, not enough psychiatrists, and limited therapy capacity. Waitlists are long, acuity is rising, and PCPs are carrying more behavioral load.
For health systems shaping the future of behavioral health
You're responsible for delivering safe, effective, sustainable behavioral health care across tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. Zenara brings a decade of real-world practice experience and large-system design expertise to help you scale collaborative and integrated care models—thoughtfully.
Behavioral health at scale is not a point problem
Fragmented workflows and tools
Different clinics and service lines use different intake forms, measurement practices, and coordination habits. Leadership struggles to see a coherent picture.
Evolving payment and regulatory pressure
Collaborative care, BHI/APCM, and proposed GPCM-style models assume integrated workflows, measurement, and documentation that many organizations aren’t structurally ready for.
Clinician burnout and retention risk
Psychiatrists, therapists, and PCPs are exhausted by documentation and coordination demands layered on top of clinical work.
What Zenara offers health systems
1. A proven clinical backbone
Zenara Assist encodes workflows refined over 10 years in a live psychiatry practice and informed by large-scale programs at Kaiser and Headspace Health.
2. Modular adoption
Start with assessment (Assess), then add outcomes tracking (Monitor) and care-management orchestration (Care) in pilots or progressive rollouts. No ‘all or nothing’ mandate.
3. Alignment with care models and policy
Technology supports your ability to run CCM, CoCM, BHI/APCM, and prepare for GPCM-style adjustments—without dictating your care model or replacing your core EHR.
4. Human-centered, clinician-first design
Everything is built from the vantage point of clinicians, not just IT or finance. The goal is to reduce friction and restore meaning, not just extract more revenue.
Fitting into—not fighting—your existing infrastructure
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Runs alongside existing EHRs and care-management tools
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Produces structured outputs that can be integrated into your analytics stack
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Supports phased pilots rather than big-bang deployments
For many organizations, that means using Zenara to normalize and upgrade behavioral health workflows in a few pilot sites or programs, then standardizing what works more broadly.
Zenara Assist is designed as a sidecar, not a replacement, for your core EHR and data platforms. We focus on assessment workflows, outcomes visibility, and care-management orchestration, then feed artifacts and signals back into your systems.
We’ve done this at both clinic and population scale
Before founding Zenara, I helped build one of Kaiser Permanente’s largest collaborative care programs, serving a 500,000-patient catchment, and was the first clinical leader at Ginger (now Headspace Health), where we designed clinical architectures that scaled nationally.
Zenara encodes the lessons from those systems and from a decade of continuous measurement and care management in my own practice.
Our recent clinical partnership demonstrated that the methodology works in integrated primary care settings—not just specialty psychiatry. Assessment identified root causes (sleep, substances, social isolation, trauma) that standard visits miss, and surfaced safety concerns before patients saw a clinician.
- Collaborative care experience at large, integrated system scale (Kaiser, 500K catchment)
- National digital behavioral health program design (Headspace Health)
- 10 years of measurement-based care in live practice (~400 patients)
- Clinical partnership with Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine: 45 comprehensive assessments, 8-10 diagnoses per patient vs. literature benchmark of 2.8
Examples of how we work with health systems
Who we’re a good partner for
- Organizations with a clear mandate to improve behavioral health access, quality, and sustainability—not just tick a box
- Teams that value clinician experience and want to reduce burnout, not increase it
- Leaders who are willing to run meaningful pilots, learn, and iterate rather than demand instant, system-wide transformation
- Partners who understand that technology is an enabler, not a substitute, for care-model design
We’re not the right fit for
- Organizations looking for a quick compliance tool without care-model change
- We’re not a replacement EHR; we complement the core platforms you‘ve invested in
Questions enterprise leaders ask us
Do you replace our EHR or population health platform?
No. We’re a sidecar platform focused on assessment workflows, outcomes, and continuous care coordination. We integrate and share signals with your existing systems; we don’t compete to be your system of record.
How do you handle security and compliance?
Zenara is designed for HIPAA-aligned clinical environments and supports strong privacy and security controls. We can work with your security and compliance teams to review architecture and documentation in detail.
How do we start without overcommitting?
We typically recommend a scoped pilot—either in a specific psychiatry/BH service line or a defined integrated care setting. Together, we set clear success criteria for clinical, operational, and financial outcomes before considering broader rollout.
How does this interact with value-based or alternative payment models?
Zenara is built to support care models that underpin many value-based arrangements—collaborative care, BHI/APCM, and proposed GPCM-style adjustments—by making assessment, measurement, and coordination more consistent and visible.
If you're serious about behavioral health at scale, let's talk
You don't need another vendor promising to 'transform everything.' You need a partner who respects the complexity of your system, understands clinicians, and can help you run better behavioral health care models in the real world. If that resonates, we'd be honored to explore a pilot with you.
