Lightning Step’s LIA Becomes the First ISO 42001 Certified AI in Behavioral Healthcare

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2025--

Lightning Step is proud to announce that its AI-powered assistant, LIA (Lightning Intelligent Assistant), has achieved ISO 42001 certification, becoming the first and only AI solution in the behavioral healthcare space to meet this rigorous international standard for AI management systems.

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ISO 42001 is the world’s first standard specifically focused on the governance, transparency, compliance, and ethical deployment of artificial intelligence. This milestone isn’t just about technology, it’s about building trust, creating impact, and elevating care, together.

“LIA’s certification proves that AI can be both powerful and responsible,”said Dr. Martin Ignatovski, CIO of Lightning Step. “We’ve always believed that innovation should never come at the expense of patient privacy, security, ethics, or clinical integrity. This certification validates our commitment to safe, transparent, ethical, and human-centered technology.”

LIA is an AI-powered solution that simplifies and accelerates clinical documentation for behavioral and mental health organizations. Fully integrated into Lightning Step’s unified EMR, CRM, and RCM platform, LIA supports the creation of progress notes, assessments, and treatment plans, helping clinical teams produce accurate and compliant documentation in less time.

By reducing documentation workload by over 55%, LIA enables clinics to save more than 12 hours per clinician each month, boosting productivity and relieving administrative burden. It also supports staff training, enhances documentation quality, and contributes to better outcomes for both care teams and patients.

With its recent ISO 42001 certification, LIA reinforces Lightning Step’s commitment to ethical and explainable innovation, data privacy, and clinical excellence. This certification ensures that LIA:

“In a landscape where AI is evolving rapidly, we’ve taken a leadership position in ensuring our customers can trust how LIA works, what it produces, and how their data is managed,” added Lightning Step CEO Brent Michael.

About Lightning Step
Lightning Step, founded by former treatment center owners, operators, and clinicians, provides a comprehensive CRM, EMR, and RCM platform purpose-built for behavioral health and addiction treatment facilities. Guided by our vision - “Elevating care, together”- we empower behavioral health professionals to help people on their healing journeys. As a fully integrated solution for managing the complete lifecycle of patient care, Lightning Step streamlines interdepartmental workflows, enhances operational efficiency, and improves clinical outcomes. Learn more at www.lightningstep.com.

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A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)