URAC self-audit
HONcode, the health-website seal most sites still reference, shut down on 15 December 2022; its domains are dead. The live, credible accreditor is URAC — Health Website Accreditation and Health Content Provider Certification. We haven't pursued the paid accreditation yet (~$10k-30k, 9-12 months prep), but its six domains are a free, externally-defined standard we can score ourselves against today, in public.
Self-audit
| # | Domain | Status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Content quality grounded in reliable scientific evidence, with identified authors/reviewers | ◐ partial | Published, versioned methodology and named reviewer bylines exist; reviewer roster is still a single placeholder entry — see /reviewers. |
| 2 | Editorial and advertising policy — clear separation of commercial and editorial content | ✓ met | No advertising exists on the site; the editorial firewall is documented. |
| 3 | Conflict-of-interest management for contributors and editorial staff | ✓ met | ICMJE-format disclosure + recusal rules, enforced in the publish pipeline. |
| 4 | Consumer personal-information protection with consent requirements | ✓ met | Standard privacy/consent handling; no personal data required to read any claim. |
| 5 | Website privacy and security procedures | ✓ met | Standard security practices for a Cloudflare Workers deployment (TLS, no plaintext secrets, scoped admin auth). |
| 6 | Linking policy governed by a quality oversight committee | ✗ gap | No formal quality oversight committee governing outbound links exists yet. This is the genuine gap — named, not papered over. |
What happens next
We'll pursue paid URAC accreditation once the reviewer network is stable, we have a year of corrections/metrics history, and the badge is worth it commercially — which it becomes the moment the practitioner tier is selling into clinics whose procurement asks for it. Until then, this page is the honest interim: built to the standard, not yet certified to it.