Kate McCann
PR Lead
Phone: 07528 796400
Linsey Scott
Marketing and Communications Director
Phone: 07788 432323
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About ORCHA
Founded by NHS clinicians, ORCHA is the world’s leading digital health evaluation and distribution organisation. We provide services to national health bodies across three continents, including the NHS in 50% of UK regions, delivering national accreditation frameworks, bespoke Digital Health Libraries, and professional recommendation tools, specific to the needs of our clients. ORCHA’s unique Review Engine assesses digital health solutions against more than 350 measures across Clinical/Professional Assurance, Data & Privacy, and Usability & Accessibility, plus additional criteria depending on needs.
As an NHS speech and language therapist, Liz was frustrated she could only see one patient at a time, especially with such long waiting times. This led her on a mission to improve quality and efficiencies within NHS departments. With the advent of healthcare apps, Liz set up ORCHA, the world’s first health app rating system. Her objective: that professionals and citizens should have access to health apps they can trust.
Simon can speak about how digital health may be used to supplement or transform existing care pathways, enabling improved access or reducing reliance on incumbent services. His background is in health economics, market access, social media analytics, medical writing & value demonstration, with application in the pharmaceutical, academic, digital, & regulatory sectors.
Tim is ORCHA’s spokesperson on regulation, security and accreditation in the world of digital health. Amongst many senior roles he has held, Tim is former Managing Director of the NHS Cheshire & Merseyside CSU, an 800 strong organisation, turning over £40m pa and providing a range of support services to health and social care commissioners across the region and the North of England.
About ORCHA
Founded by NHS clinicians, ORCHA is the world’s leading digital health evaluation and distribution organisation. We provide services to national health bodies across three continents, including the NHS in 50% of UK regions, delivering national accreditation frameworks, bespoke Digital Health Libraries, and professional recommendation tools, specific to the needs of our clients. ORCHA’s unique Review Engine assesses digital health solutions against more than 350 measures across Clinical/Professional Assurance, Data & Privacy, and Usability & Accessibility, plus additional criteria depending on needs.
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ORCHA’s research expertise
ORCHA is the world’s leading reviewer of digital health products – but our in-house experts also monitor industry trends and commission their own research:
The facts below may be useful background, but if there’s something you want to know and it isn’t listed, just ask us.
All our new research is also published on our news feed.
The digital health market
How consumers are using apps
How healthcare professionals are using apps
Facts about ORCHA
Call or text Kate McCann on +44 (0)7528 796400 or email kate.mccann@orchahealth.com
About ORCHA
Founded by NHS clinicians, ORCHA is the world’s leading digital health evaluation and distribution organisation. We provide services to national health bodies across three continents, including the NHS in 50% of UK regions, delivering national accreditation frameworks, bespoke Digital Health Libraries, and professional recommendation tools, specific to the needs of our clients. ORCHA’s unique Review Engine assesses digital health solutions against more than 350 measures across Clinical/Professional Assurance, Data & Privacy, and Usability & Accessibility, plus additional criteria depending on needs.
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Feature image: Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom
“This report is long awaited and welcome. The pandemic left us with an over-burdened NHS, with unprecedented backlogs to tackle. But it also reminded us that necessity is the mother of invention. Digital health has already been implemented across many pockets of the NHS to help support patients at home and to ease the pressure on frontline staff. Use of our ORCHA app libraries increased by 342% in the first months of the pandemic.*
“But we have to sound a warning note. A scattergun approach to the implementation of digital health, with dozens of different products and systems introduced by different NHS providers, without a sound infrastructure to support it and minus knowledgeable frontline staff, will cost the NHS more and cause enormous confusion.
“For digital health to be safe and sustainable, we need to view digital in exactly the same was as we view medicines. We need rock-solid and universal standards in place and we need doctors to be able to prescribe products exactly as they prescribe medication, with a product recall system in place.
“There’s also an urgent need to have all frontline staff trained in how, when and why to use digital health. Earlier this year we launched the ORCHA digital health academy, a free and CPD-accredited resource available for the entire NHS workforce, available on the Health Education England NHS learning hub.”
*https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/10/e053891
**Digital Health in the UK: National attitudes and behaviour research, June 2022