Digital health is a burgeoning area of investment and interest. Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy for patients to tell who the bad actors are. We aim to change this. We want to answer the essential question: How can we protect and expand the rights of patients with opioid use disorders, while reducing barriers to care?
Opioid Settlement Money
Many of the opioid settlement conversations are happening behind closed doors, buried in legal filings, or scattered across platforms owned by companies that profit from your attention and your data. That changes today. We're launching two new, free community tools built for advocates, run on non-Big Tech infrastructure,
Research
I doubt that’s what MVP means... why “good enough” isn't good enough for public health infrastructure
Research
UPDATE: We Testified Before the Michigan Legislature Yesterday
Research
Behind the scenes of the disastrous Michigan's MiSUD addiction treatment locator website
Research
Check out our recent Journal of Addiction Medicine invited commentary
Digital Health
Our recent invited commentary about surveillance capitalism in addiction digital health. We make bold calls for corrective action and leadership on this issue. Read more here: Privacy and Digital Health: Causes for Concern and a Way... : Journal of Addiction MedicineAn abstract is unavailable.LWW[email protected]💡We're always
Digital Health
It's been 1,384 days and still no health breach notifications from 22 companies blatantly violating people's health privacy rights.
Policy
Support Whistleblower Aid, EFF, 404 Media, Wired, and Techdirt
Digital Health
Wired (6 Sept 2024)🔒 This is bad. +120,000 files +1.7 million activity logs 5.3 terabytes of data Intake files Audio of sessions Video of sessions Drug tests Therapy notes all were exposed on an unsecured database. This is a privacy and security disaster.
In the News
Our recent op-ed in STAT News focused on NIDA's reckless spending in the digital health space. We highlight how NIDA-funded digital health services are frequently using illegal technology when handling sensitive, protected health data and what can be done to fix this (NIDA clawing back the money, more
In the News
Normal Silicon Valley non-sense: Move fast and break things Health-tech version: Move fast and go broke
Digital Health
A must-read for those who say these privacy violations are not intentional and that these companies "mean well."