Sigmund Software, LLC

SIGMUND™ Clients immediately realize the benefits of our unique approach to Client service. We focus on the uniqueness each professional brings to patient treatment. We speak both "softwareese" and "practitionerese." We have expertise at all levels of your SIGMUND™ experience. Whether it's a complex installation across remote LANs and WANs or simple patient information entry, we're there to help. You see we understand software should work for you, not visa versa.

Our mission is to provide behavioral healthcare and social services facilities state of the art systems, tools and expertise to maximize their return on resources, quantify treatment effectiveness and produce more successful patient outcomes

Our commitment to each client is to ensure an EMR solution and transition that exceeds expectations!

Joseph Santoro, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer

Joseph Santoro has an extensive background in the behavioral healthcare industry. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Hofstra University and is licensed to practice psychology in New York. Dr. Santoro is author of several self-help books and is the designer of the Target Behavior Tracking system for patient outcomes measurement.

Dr. Santoro combines expert knowledge of the behavioral health care industry with successful entrepreneurial and management experience.

Dr. Santoro founded and successfully managed for 20 years two behavioral health care treatment companies employing over 120 people with revenues of about $12 million per year.

Dr. Santoro founded Sigmund Software, LLC in 2004. He used his knowledge of the inner workings of all types of behavioral health treatment organizations such as group practices, clinics, residential treatment programs and hospitals to design the core functional requirements of what would come to be Sigmund’s electronic medical record system for behavioral health care organizations.

Dr. Santoro is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received Innovation Awards from the Partnership for Behavioral Healthcare and is Board Certified in Forensic Evaluations, Traumatic Stress and Behavioral Medicine.

Dr. Santoro has appeared in the following media: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, PBS and on several radio broadcast shows.

Selected Publications

Santoro, J, DeLetis, R and Bergman, A (2001). Kill the Craving: How to Control the Impulse to Use Drugs and Alcohol. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Santoro, J. (1998) An Equifinality Model of Borderline Personality Disorder. Trauma Response, IV (1), 24-28

Santoro, J and Cohen, R (1997). The Angry Heart. Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders. Oakland,CA: New Harbingers Publications.

Santoro, Joseph. 1997. Target Behavior Profiling. In M. A. Freeman, ed., High Performance Behavioral Healthcare: The Breakthrough Innovation Sourcebook and Mutual Consultation Guide. California: CentraLink Publications.


santoro@sigmundsoftware.com

Harry Manesis
Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Manesis joined Sigmund after a sixteen year tenure with IBM Corporation. He initially held accounting and corporate finance positions. He later moved on to IBM Global services and served as project manager and consultant providing oversight for implementation of enterprise financial systems. In this capacity, he worked directly with Fortune 100 and 500 companies both domestically and abroad. His work eventually expanded to encompass oversight for sales operations and lead responsibility for management of multi-year consulting engagements.

Mr. Manesis has been instrumental in evolving Sigmund strategies for software deployment, consulting and customer management. Mr. Manesis manages all of Sigmund’s sales, implementation and consulting engagements, support and quality assurance. He provides active leadership for all sales activities and assumes primary responsibility for pricing, sales strategy and contract negotiations.

hmanesis@sigmundsoftware.com

Marcus Sharpe
Chief Development Officer

Mr. Sharpe brings over fifteen years experience in the field of behavioral health. In his earliest years, he held a variety of research, direct care and paraprofessional positions. His experience included working with diverse patient populations in a variety of treatment settings. Mr. Sharpe graduated to general management positions and ultimately served as the Chief Information Officer for SLS Residential, Inc. In this position, he provided technology and operational oversight for a 12 million dollar treatment provider. His responsibilities included management of physical plants, food services, accounting services, network, software, hardware and telecommunications systems.

In this capacity he also successfully designed and developed one of the earliest enterprise behavioral health information systems. This was accomplished by working collaboratively with teams of physicians, clinicians and administrators. Mr. Sharpe later led a successful effort to share and beta test the software systems with a number of public and private sector treatment organizations from around the country. This included large behavioral health continuums, outpatient practices and state agencies. This provided vital experience in understanding the technology, training, configuration and support needs of behavioral health providers from a range of industry segments. The resulting effort yielded a blueprint that would serve as the basis for Sigmund’s current flagship EMR system.

Mr. Sharpe’s experience has given him a deep and broad understanding of the regulatory, accreditation, clinical documentation and operational needs of treatment providers. This knowledge is effectively combined with industry-specific management expertise and technical skill. Mr. Sharpe provides day-to-day oversight for all general operations, sales, software development, quality assurance, implementation and support activities.

msharpe@sigmundsoftware.com

Stephen Griffiths
Director of Application Development

sgriffiths@sigmundsoftware.com

Jack Allen
Director of Information Services

jallen@sigmundsoftware.com

Cory Valentine
Director of Client Development

cvalentine@sigmundsoftware.com