ruha.io
Technology for clinical work, built with restraint.
Supporting mental health education and practice without extraction, surveillance, or pressure.
What We're Building
Ruha is a small research and software effort focused on tools that support real clinical work, especially in graduate training programs, supervision, and early professional practice.
About EMA
EMA is a clinical software initiative focused on training-to-practice continuity, clinical realism, and non-extractive system design in mental health education and care.
Our primary system is EMA (Electronic Mental Health Application): a clinical training simulator designed to bridge graduate education and professional practice.
The Problem EMA Addresses
Graduate counseling programs excel at teaching clinical theory, ethics, and therapeutic technique. But students rarely encounter the administrative reality of practice, including referral coordination, documentation workflows, billing, and consent processes, until after licensure.
This "training gap" leaves new clinicians spending months learning systems they could have mastered during education.
Training-to-Practice Continuity
EMA solves this through one system that serves both graduate training and professional practice. Students learn on EMA with synthetic data; upon licensure, the data substrate changes but the workflows, interface, and professional habits remain constant.
EMA is not designed to optimize throughput or productivity. It is designed to prepare clinicians for real practice while staying out of the way of care.
Communications & Notifications
EMA uses email and SMS messaging only for operational purposes, including:
- Account security (verification codes, password recovery)
- Appointment notifications and reminders
EMA does not send marketing or promotional messages by SMS.
Details about SMS consent, opt-in, and opt-out are available on our SMS Notifications page.
What EMA Does Not Do
- No analytics on clinical content
- No productivity scoring or engagement metrics
- No sale or secondary use of data
- No model training on clinical material
- No feature expansion without stability earned through real use
These constraints are architectural, not aspirational.
Governance & Oversight
EMA is developed under explicit design principles and clinician advisory oversight intended to prevent drift toward institutional or extractive software models. If a feature benefits procurement but harms clinicians or clients, it is not built.
Current Status
Pilot Validation PhaseEMA is currently in pilot validation with institutional partners. New capabilities are introduced only after demonstrating safe, predictable operation in real training and clinical workflows.