About PraxisOne
PraxisOne is a Greater Nashville healthcare technology company advancing predictive, generative, and agentic AI to identify at-risk patients earlier — and with greater precision — than legacy approaches.
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We work alongside care teams, not on top of them.
We surface the signals that matter — not more dashboards.
We turn early signals into guided, defensible action.
We treat governance and security as core, never an afterthought.
Governance, Security & Compliance
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 — and to earn the confidence of the boards and committees that review us. Board-level oversight and leadership spanning more than 30 years in data handling, security, and healthcare has led inside Federal and State entities and within a Fortune 500 company — instilling rich data-governance and security protocols accordingly.
PraxisOne is headquartered in Franklin, TN, in the greater Nashville area — one of the nation's leading healthcare ecosystems. We build shoulder-to-shoulder with the providers, operators, and health systems that define the industry.
PraxisOne, Inc. · Franklin, TN · Greater Nashville Area
Founders
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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