National Institute on Drug Abuse

With $1.7M NIDA grant, emocha will evaluate its app for treating opioid addiction

By Jonah Comstock 04:47 pm June 28, 2017

Baltimore-based emocha Mobile Health has been awarded a $1.7 million Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The company will use the grant for a feasibility study of its digital direct observation therapy tech. Emocha is an acronym for “electronic mobile comprehensive health application”. The company has been developing an app for...

AiCure clinical trial seeks to validate smartphone camera-enabled medication adherence

By Jonah Comstock 12:18 pm November 24, 2014

New York City-based AiCure is launching a clinical trial to validate its smartphone camera-based approach to medication adherence. The company will work with the Cincinnati Addiction Research Center (CinARC) at the University of Cincinnati on a 12-month, 130-patient trial. (Correction: The original version of this article described the system as "video-based", but the company says that is...