About

Joshua Freedman felt an urge to create what became healthPiper even before he started medical school at Yale decades ago. The son of the psychiatrist, he was aggravated that the way treatment was delivered had barely changed in over a century. He anticipated that the emerging Internet technology could give people much more control over their treatment, while at the same time making it more convenient and effective.

He has devoted his career to developing and making available extraordinarily effective treatment built on these principles. healthPiper started providing treatment to the public over a decade ago, and has continuously innovated and enhanced its service. Like-minded psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, and others with their own experience have developed healthPiper to deliver the treatment we want it for ourselves and our families. healthPiper’s sole motivation is to deliver the most effective treatment available anywhere. About 5 years ago, venture-capital money was pouring into online psychiatry, but healthPiper, even as others tried to copy elements of our model, refused to take any funding that would have valued growth and profit ahead of providing the world’s best and most effective treatment.

Joshua Freedman is a graduate of Yale Medical School in the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, and a supervisor in the UCLA mood disorders clinic. He is a past president of the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry, the past Computers and Psychiatry editor for the American Psychiatric Association affiliated journal Psychiatric Services, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.