Canada-based digital health platform Ask The Doctor has begun accepting bitcoin payments to help protect the privacy and security of their users.
Launched in 2010, Ask The Doctor securely connects users with general physicians or specialists through an online platform, enabling users to ask medical questions anonymously.
"Many of our users ask extremely sensitive questions from teenage pregnancy to STDs to drug use that they are too afraid to go to their own doctor's office to get help for," said Ask the Doctor CEO Prakash Chand in a statement. "On top of that, many users don't want their family members to know. While it does take some extra effort to have complete anonymity using Bitcoin, it's certainly a large improvement over a credit card."