CorrecTek
CorrecTek sells CorrecTek Spark, an ONC-certified, EPCS-certified electronic health record platform purpose-built for U.S. correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, and behavioral health programs, with 120+ clients across 30+ states.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2006
- HeadquartersPaducah, United States
- Headcount1–10
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What CorrecTek does
CorrecTek, Inc. is a privately held U.S. software company headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky that sells CorrecTek Spark, an ONC Health IT Certified (v7.1) and EPCS Certified electronic health record platform purpose-built for correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, behavioral health programs, and other complex multi-disciplinary care environments. The platform consolidates clinical, behavioral health, dental, pharmacy (including electronic prescribing of controlled substances via NewCrop Core), observation/monitoring, billing with Medicaid 1115 waiver support, and compliance reporting (NCCHC, ACA, AJA, HIPAA) into a single longitudinal record, with FHIR R4-based interoperability via the EMR Direct Interoperability Engine and the Carequality Network. Around the core EHR, CorrecTek offers three product extensions — the CBI Dashboard (an optional Microsoft Power BI analytics add-on), Interface Options (built integrations to labs, pharmacies, OMS/JMS, and radiology systems, with three standard interfaces included per implementation), and CorrecTek eLearning (role-based on-demand training with certification quizzes) — plus the optional Advantage Plan subscription for unlimited training and configuration.
The company monetizes Spark via either a one-time perpetual license or a lease (12-month minimum), with recurring monthly fees for 24/7 support, software upgrades, and ongoing maintenance; separate fees apply for additional interfaces, the NewCrop ePrescribing module (one-time plus per-prescriber monthly), the CBI Dashboard, and the Advantage Plan managed-service tier. CorrecTek sells exclusively through direct enterprise field sales, supported by an inside-sales inbound phone line, a dedicated 'Healthcare Vendors' channel for partners/resellers, an in-house 24/7 support team reachable via TeamViewer Quick Support, and a heavy conference-circuit presence (NCCHC, ACA, NIJO JailCon, and state sheriffs' associations) where the President is the primary face of the company. The company reports 120+ client organizations across 30+ U.S. states and territories, with deployments ranging from facilities under 100 beds to multi-site operators over 10,000 beds, and claims 20+ years of correctional-EHR domain expertise. Leadership comprises CEO Burton Ulrich, President Dan Jarrett, and CTO Matt Wurth; no parent company, institutional investors, funding rounds, or revenue figures are disclosed in the available materials.
CorrecTek firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- CorrecTek
- Legal name
- CorrecTek, Inc.
- Website
- https://correctek.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2006
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 1–10 employees
- Short description
- CorrecTek sells CorrecTek Spark, an ONC-certified, EPCS-certified electronic health record platform purpose-built for U.S. correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, and behavioral health programs, with 120+ clients across 30+ states.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
CorrecTek industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Correctional Healthcare EHR Software
- NAICS
- Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Consent, Preference & Data Rights Management (incl. HIPAA/GDPR support) (HLACAIAG)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Medication Adherence, Digital Therapeutics & Remote Coaching (condition-specific programs) (HLALAFAF), Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Benefit Management (HLAEAHAF), Student Health, Immunization, Nursing & Wellness Records (EDAFAEAH)
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Where CorrecTek is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Paducah
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
CorrecTek business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Spark EHR One-Time Purchase: One-time upfront license fee for the Spark EHR platform, calculated based on capacity tiers that accommodate organizations from smaller teams to multi-site operators. Separate monthly fees apply for 24/7 technical support, software upgrades, and ongoing maintenance. Includes full-service implementation and three standard interfaces.
- Spark EHR Lease: One-time lease fee due upfront plus recurring monthly fee with a minimum 12-month term. Monthly recurring fee bundles 24/7 technical support, software upgrades, and ongoing maintenance. Targets organizations preferring OpEx over CapEx.
- ePrescribing Service (NewCrop): Required for Meaningful Use users. Combines a one-time ePrescribing fee with a monthly service fee per prescriber for the NewCrop Core ePrescribing module, including EPCS-controlled-substance prescribing.
- Implementation, Training & Data Migration Services: Full-service implementation overseen by a dedicated project manager; in-person or remote go-live training tailored to the team; optional Active Patient Data Migration (pre-go-live) and Archival Data Migration (post-go-live) services. Additional interfaces beyond the three standard ones are billed separately.
- CorrecTek Advantage Plan: Optional fixed-monthly-fee managed service providing unlimited training and configuration requests, eliminating hourly charges or quoting delays for continuous onboarding, refresher training, and configuration changes.
- CBI Dashboard Add-on (Power BI Analytics): Optional analytics add-on leveraging Microsoft Power BI to pull thousands of data points into specialized reports; pricing detailed in a dedicated CBI Dashboard Pricing brochure.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| One time/ perpetual license | Multi-year contract | Spark One-Time Purchase |
| Subscription | Monthly | Spark Lease Option |
| Hybrid | Monthly | NewCrop ePrescribing (required add-on for MU) |
| Subscription | Monthly | CorrecTek Advantage Plan (optional) |
| Other | Pay-as-you-go | CBI Dashboard Add-on |
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels8 records
CorrecTek product offering
Product offeringCore offering
CorrecTek develops and sells CorrecTek Spark, an ONC-certified (v7.1) and EPCS-certified electronic health record (EHR) platform purpose-built for correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, and behavioral health programs. Around Spark, it offers an optional CBI Dashboard analytics add-on built on Microsoft Power BI, configured interface integrations to OMS/JMS, labs, and pharmacies, an eLearning training platform, and an Advantage Plan managed-support subscription. Revenue is generated through one-time licenses or leases, monthly maintenance/support, per-prescriber ePrescribing fees, implementation services, and add-on analytics.
Product overview
CorrecTek delivers a single-platform EHR architecture anchored by its core product, CorrecTek Spark — an ONC Certified for Health IT and EPCS Certified electronic health record system purpose-built for correctional facilities, juvenile centers, behavioral health, and other multi-disciplinary care settings. Around Spark, CorrecTek offers three named product extensions that compose the overall portfolio: the CBI Dashboard, an optional Power BI-based analytics add-on for deeper operational and compliance insights; Interface Options, the set of built and maintained integrations connecting Spark to labs, pharmacies, OMS/JMS, radiology/RIS and other external systems; and CorrecTek eLearning, the role-based on-demand training platform that supports Spark implementation and ongoing proficiency. Complementing these is the CorrecTek Advantage Plan, an optional subscription service providing unlimited training and configuration requests on top of Spark. Spark's purchase or lease options (each with 24/7 technical support and software upgrades included) tie the product, integrations, and learning services together into a configurable end-to-end EHR solution.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- CorrecTek Spark: ONC-certified, customizable Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform purpose-built for complex care environments including correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, behavioral health programs, and specialized treatment settings.
- CBI Dashboard
- CorrecTek Advantage Plan
Products and services
- CorrecTek Spark ONC Certified for Health IT (v7.1) and EPCS Certified electronic health record platform purpose-built for correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, behavioral health programs, and specialized treatment settings. Highly configurable across intake, charting templates, documentation flows, reporting, integrated billing with Medicaid 1115 waiver support, ePrescribing with controlled-substance workflows, role-based access control, and compliance with NCCHC, ACA, and AJA standards. Available via one-time purchase or subscription lease with full-service implementation led by a dedicated project manager.
- CBI Dashboard Optional Power BI-based analytics add-on for CorrecTek Spark that pulls operational, clinical, and compliance data into specialized reports for correctional, juvenile, and behavioral health customers.
- Interface Options Set of built and maintained integrations that connect Spark to labs, pharmacies, OMS/JMS, radiology/RIS, and other external systems, enabling real-time clinical data exchange across correctional and juvenile facilities.
- CorrecTek eLearning On-demand, role-based online training platform with tutorials and certification quizzes for Spark users across medical, behavioral health, dental, and administrative roles.
- CorrecTek Advantage Plan Optional subscription service that provides unlimited training and configuration requests for CorrecTek Spark for a fixed monthly fee, eliminating hourly charges or quoting delays.
Quantifiable outcome
- 120+ clients across 30+ U.S. states and territories rely on the Spark platform
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Companies that use CorrecTek
Customer profileNamed customers2 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
CorrecTek technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration4 records
AI capability2 records
Feature8 records
CorrecTek partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.
- NewCropcoreNewCrop Core ePrescribing is integrated into Spark to enable EPCS-certified electronic prescribing of controlled substances. Required for Meaningful Use users. CorrecTek clients pay a one-time ePrescribing fee plus a monthly service fee per prescriber. Listed as 'NewCrop Core' under certification criteria §170.315(a)(4) Drug-drug, drug-allergy interaction checks for CPOE.
- EMR DirectcoreProvides the Interoperability Engine that powers Spark's FHIR R4 API and connects CorrecTek clients to the Carequality Network. Customers may also require the EMR Direct Interoperability Engine for Meaningful Use. Only authorized 3rd party vendors are allowed API access; each CorrecTek client authorizes and may enforce its own Terms of Use for API access.
- Microsoft (Power BI)coreThe optional CBI Dashboard add-on leverages Microsoft Power BI to pull thousands of data points from Spark into specialized reports for deeper analytics on client demographics, treatment progress, and medication management.
- Corizon Health, Inc. (former customer under healthcare-services contract)coreSubject of a 2016 lawsuit filed by Corizon against CorrecTek over an alleged failed implementation at a 300-bed women's prison in Pocatello, Idaho. Settled July 10, 2018 with no admission of fault by CorrecTek. Corizon remains a customer using the Spark EHR in multiple jails and one state-wide DOC. Officers sued personally: Burton Ulrich (CEO), Dan Jarrett (President), Matt Wurth (CTO). Relationship is best characterized as a complex, long-running customer/contract relationship rather than a partnership.
Scale indicators6 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
CorrecTek competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- eClinicalWorks: Large ambulatory EHR vendor occasionally deployed in correctional and community-health settings. Represents the lower-cost, generalist alternative to CorrecTek's niche correctional configuration.
- Oracle Health (Cerner): Large incumbent health IT platform with correctional and state DOC deployments. Competes in adjacent spaces where large health systems deliver care inside facilities; CorrecTek competes on configurability and domain specialization rather than scale.
- Epic Systems: Dominant U.S. hospital EHR with selected correctional deployments via large affiliated health systems. Represents the ceiling on competition — facilities with parent health systems may standardize on Epic, but Epic's complexity often loses the long tail of small/medium jails.
- NextGen Healthcare: Ambulatory EHR and practice management vendor with behavioral health and correctional adjacencies. Competes as a generalist alternative where correctional sites are part of broader community health networks.
Direct peers
- KaZee, Inc. Correctional healthcare technology and services provider offering EHR, telemedicine, and offender management for U.S. jails and prisons. Comparable on correctional-health EHR product and public-sector buyer; differentiated by deeper telemedicine integration.
- Syscon Justice Systems (now part of Catalyst Business Solutions): Correctional industry software vendor offering offender management and integrated healthcare modules to jails, prisons, and courts. Comparable on customer segment and integrated correctional health IT, though more weighted toward offender management than clinical EHR.
- PrimeCare Technologies: Long-standing competitor specializing in EHR and offender management software for correctional facilities (jails, prisons, juvenile). Directly comparable on product (correctional EHR), customer base (county/state DOCs), and deployment scale, making it CorrecTek's closest head-to-head rival.
- Lightning Step Technologies: EHR platform purpose-built for behavioral health and addiction treatment, with growing exposure to correctional and juvenile settings. Directly comparable as a specialty, compliance-driven EHR vendor targeting overlapping behavioral-health and juvenile-justice buyers.
Others
- Valence Health (now Imagine360 / Wellvana-adjacent correctional programs): Population health and care-management platform used by correctional health providers and ACOs. Adjacent rather than direct — competes for IT budget at the same customer sites rather than for the EHR seat itself.
- TIGER (The Information Gateway for Effective Reentry): Correctional case-management and reentry software vendor interfacing with correctional EHRs via APIs. Comparable as a complementary/adjacent technology stack partner (similar to CorrecTek's Carequality/FHIR posture) rather than a direct EHR competitor.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
CorrecTek social profiles
Digital presenceCorrecTek compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance4 records
CorrecTek financial estimates
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CorrecTek leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
CorrecTek subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries3 records
CorrecTek funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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CorrecTek M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about CorrecTek
What does CorrecTek do?
CorrecTek develops and sells CorrecTek Spark, an ONC-certified (v7.1) and EPCS-certified electronic health record (EHR) platform purpose-built for correctional facilities, juvenile detention centers, and behavioral health programs. Around Spark, it offers an optional CBI Dashboard analytics add-on built on Microsoft Power BI, configured interface integrations to OMS/JMS, labs, and pharmacies, an eLearning training platform, and an Advantage Plan managed-support subscription. Revenue is generated through one-time licenses or leases, monthly maintenance/support, per-prescriber ePrescribing fees, implementation services, and add-on analytics.
Is CorrecTek a public or private company?
CorrecTek is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was CorrecTek founded?
CorrecTek was founded in 2006. It employs 1 to 10 people.
Where is CorrecTek based?
CorrecTek is headquartered in Paducah, United States, in the North America region.
How does CorrecTek make money?
Six revenue lines are on record. Spark EHR One-Time Purchase is the primary driver. The others are spark EHR Lease, ePrescribing Service (NewCrop), implementation, Training & Data Migration Services, correcTek Advantage Plan and CBI Dashboard Add-on (Power BI Analytics).
Who are CorrecTek's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are eClinicalWorks, Oracle Health (Cerner), Epic Systems and NextGen Healthcare. Direct peers are KaZee, Inc., Syscon Justice Systems (now part of Catalyst Business Solutions), PrimeCare Technologies and Lightning Step Technologies. Others are Valence Health (now Imagine360 / Wellvana-adjacent correctional programs) and TIGER (The Information Gateway for Effective Reentry).
Does CorrecTek have an API?
Yes. Partner-facing API offering standardized API for patient and population services (per ONC §170.315(g)(10)), implemented as a FHIR R4 API through the EMR Direct Interoperability Engine. Only authorized 3rd-party vendors are permitted to access the API, and each CorrecTek client is responsible for authorizing API access by a 3rd party and may enforce its own Terms of Use on its instance of API access. API Documentation is hosted at https://appstudio.interopengine.com/ and Terms of Use at https://www.interopengine.com/open-api-terms.html. Developer documentation is at appstudio.interopengine.com.
What industry is CorrecTek in?
CorrecTek's product category is Correctional Healthcare EHR Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HLACAIAG, Consent, Preference & Data Rights Management (incl. HIPAA/GDPR support), with a secondary code of HLALAFAF, Medication Adherence, Digital Therapeutics & Remote Coaching (condition-specific programs). Its NAICS code is 541511 and its SIC code is 7372.