Therapy Charts adds 5 to its team as it matures business model

In an age when so many big companies work to be more like start-ups, Ann Arbor-based start-up Therapy Charts is striving to be more big biz. "We're starting to look more and more like we're from corporate America," says Lisa Farmer, CEO of Therapy Charts. "I feel like a traitor for saying it but we have grown from an informal group of employees that need that information." Therapy Charts is commercializing its patient information management platform for therapists who are independent practitioners, such as clinical psychologists, social workers, and mental health counselors. Lisa Farmer founded Therapy Charts four years ago after working in hospital mental health departments and observing that medical record technology was aimed at big institutions and not sole practitioners or small health-care co-operatives. Farmer and her team of 17 people are working to make Therapy Charts the leader of digitizing  records for the mental health industry. Farmer describes the competition as 13 other start-ups and she expects her company's continued growth will allow Therapy Charts to "remain ahead of the pack." Therapy Charts recently received a microloan from the Michigan Microloan Fund. That has allowed the start-up to put together a marketing plan and expand its sales cycle. That growth has allowed Farmer to add five people to her team, expanding it to 17 staffers and two interns. She expects to continue growing her company's bottom line and staff over the next year. Source: Lisa Farmer, CEO of Therapy Charts Writer: Jon Zemke Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.