In 2020, for the first time, SEHTA organised a major new international event; aimed at SMEs, Corporates, Academics & NHS Healthcare Providers, designed to take the programme of support to another level. The event saw 42 Sponsors and Exhibitors from all over the UK, Europe and rest of the world, and over 230 delegates take part. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions the 2020 event was delivered virtually.
For 2021, on Friday 8th October at the Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel, the event will return as a hybrid – a combination of a live & virtual event, to ensure the expo can be delivered to as many people as possible – an attended live event blended with the best elements and convenience of a digital one.
ORCHA is delighted to be sponsoring the 2021 edition of the SEHTA International MedTech Expo & Conference.
ORCHA Sponsorship and Review Offer:
ORCHA is driven to deliver trusted digital health, and our stand will offer a free digital health clinic for all delegates. Ask us about your favourite app, and we’ll tell you how it performs in our assessment.
If you’re looking for the best apps for a particular condition area, we can help you to find them. If you have developed or used an app that we haven’t reviewed, we’ll schedule it for an ORCHA Baseline Review free of charge.
As well as the acceleration of digital health over the past 15 months, there has been a huge buzz around the new standards for accreditation from NHSX, with the DTAC rapidly accelerating in importance as many buying organisations integrate this standard into their minimum requirements set. Complying with DTAC can seem like a hugely onerous undertaking, especially for a new innovator with limited resources, so we’re pleased to offer a 10% discount on our DTAC package for any innovators that sign up on the day.
Come along and visit our stand at our Expo, to meet with one of our reviewers/team members as we will be running a “digital health clinic” on our stand.
If you have an app or you want to ask ORCHA about an app that hasn’t been reviewed, we will place you in queue for an ORCHA Baseline Review, which is free of charge.
Special Offer of DTAC Review:
Delegates who sign up their innovation for a DTAC review at the expo will receive a 10% discount from ORCHA
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.
On 22 June we are speaking at this year’s MedTech Integrates (Digital) conference, and we would be delighted if you would be able to attend as our guest to watch the panel debate and join in with the Q&A.
Registration gives you access to the whole day, with the panel discussions covering this year’s key themes: Detection, Reflection and Projection.
The sessions at MedTech Integrates will be live streamed and there are opportunities for networking in advance of and on the day.
Find the ORCHA team at:
Rewrite the rules: 12:15-13:05 – Tim Andrews, ORCHA COO
How will Brexit impact medical device regulation? Will this add barriers to approval, investment and ultimately patient access? Can new regulations create more opportunities?
Lost in translation: 13:40-14:30 – Liz Ashall-Payne, ORCHA CEO
What is preventing the clinical adoption of med and health tech? How can we develop technologies to ensure they translate into clinical practice?
You can find out more here and if you are able to join as our guest please register here and use promo code SPK when prompted for your complementary pass.
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.
ORCHA would like to congratulate the mental health app, Feeling Good, on being amongst the first products to become compliant with the new Digital Technology Assessment Criteria for health and social care (DTAC) – this is a fantastic achievement.
The Feeling Good app offers Positive Mental Training audio programmes based on scientific research, which can help with stress, anxiety and depression by building resilience and developing positive feelings.
ORCHA independently assessed the solution against the clinical safety, data protection, technical security, interoperability and usability and accessibility standards detailed in the DTAC and we are pleased to say Feeling Good meets each of the criteria outlined.
The DTAC, developed by the NHS and launched in 2021, is a new advisory assessment criteria for commissioning digital health technologies in the NHS and social care services. ORCHA is able to support innovators and health & care providers who want to have digital health products assessed against all of the DTAC criteria. This may be a solution you have developed, or a product you intend to use as part of practice.
Please get in touch to request a DTAC review and to discuss the options available today.
Dr Lloyd Humphreys, former head of Europe at SilverCloud, a global leader in digital mental health, has joined ORCHA (the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps) in the newly-created role of managing director.
Dr Humphreys joins the ORCHA team following a period of accelerated growth for the organisation, with searches of ORCHA app libraries by UK healthcare staff rising by 6500% during the pandemic. The firm now works with 70% of NHS regions and in eleven other countries.
Prior to SilverCloud, Dr Humphreys co-founded Breaking Free Online and helped to scale Patients Know Best, a personal health record system, which was one of the first services chosen to become an NHS Innovation Accelerator. He remains an alumnus of the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme.
Liz Ashall-Payne, founding CEO of ORCHA, said: “Lloyd’s experience of founding digital health companies and scaling them up will be invaluable for ORCHA following a dramatic two years for ourselves and the whole industry. We need to grow globally whilst retaining our core vision and values. We’re absolutely delighted to have him on board.”
Dr Humphreys said: “Digital health has fast forwarded five years in about 18 months. This will lead to huge opportunity but also risk. The global digital market can feel like the wild west and so whilst there are thousands of great apps out there, the ability to find and choose evidence based and high quality solutions can be difficult, for professional users as well as citizens.
“There’s a massive opportunity for ORCHA to lead the way, being the globally trusted source of digital health. This has not only commercial benefit but social impact, driving an organisation on a mission to enable better physical and mental health in many countries around the world.
“COVID-19 has forced digital transformation but the important time is coming up. As we go back to face-to-face care, we have to decide whether we bring back old ways of working or whether we keep the momentum going. I feel incredibly positive about the future potential of digital as we are now all asking the right questions.”
Dr Humphreys is a qualified clinical psychologist and completed an executive MBA at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. He has been acknowledged as one of the Top 100 Health Tech Influencers.