Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out apps across its hospital and community services,
helping its self-management approach.
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out apps across its hospital and community services,
helping its self-management approach. Listen to Cheryl Thompson, CCIO explain how:
“Evidence Based Practice and research is what underpins what we do on a day to day basis. ORCHA provides us
with that real point of contact for apps that have been reviewed. So staff can trust apps they know
have been reviewed and know that they are safe to use.”
ORCHA looks at more than 160 elements of an app, including clinical effectiveness, data security and
patient usability.
ORCHA looks at more than 160 elements of an app, including clinical effectiveness, data security and
patient usability. Here are three top scoring apps that are designed to help patients avoid critical
situations:
– Avoiding Diabetes – Liva UK is included within the Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention
Programme. It’s a free app that supports patients in monitoring and managing their lifestyle.
– Skin cancer detection – SkinVision is a class 1 medical device supported by a team of skin
health professionals, to track and detect skin cancer.
-Suicide prevention – developed by Grassroots Suicide Prevention, Stay Alive is a pocket
suicide prevention resource, to provide support if you’re having suicidal thoughts, or know
someone else who is.
Due to our continual re-review process, all app scores are subject to change. As such, we’d always encourage you to view our app reviews on our App Library, as this reflects Live data and app updates which are continuously changing. Our re-review process ensures that the most up-to-date information for the latest version of an app can be accessed via our App Library.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that ORCHA is the March winner for the Merseyside Innovation Award (MIA)!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that ORCHA is the March winner for the Merseyside Innovation Award (MIA)!
This award celebrates innovative companies and their achievements. With ORCHA currently engaged with organisations across Merseyside, the MIA recognises our contribution to innovation in Merseyside.
You can read more about the Award here, and watch ORCHA CEO Liz Ashall-Payne’s interview below.
After recently sponsoring The Royal Society of Medicine’s ‘Medical Apps: Mainstreaming Innovation’ event on Thursday 4th April 2019, ORCHA has now been featured in Digital Health’s news report on the event.
After recently sponsoring The Royal Society of Medicine’s ‘Medical Apps: Mainstreaming Innovation’ event on Thursday 4th April 2019, ORCHA has now been featured in Digital Health’s news report on the event.
Digital Health’s article, available here, discusses the perspective of Liz Ashall-Payne, ORCHA’s CEO, on the problems facing medical apps.
‘Speaking at a Royal Society of Medicine event on medical apps […], Liz Ashall-Payne said awareness, accessibility, trust and governance were the challenges currently facing healthcare apps.’
ORCHA aims to tackle the main barriers to digital healthcare adoption – accessibility, trust and governance – by reviewing apps according to Clinical Effectiveness, Data and Security, and User Experience.
Liz, along with Tim Andrews, ORCHA’s COO, spoke about these issues and ORCHA’s solution at the RSM’s event. Tim mentioned that,
“We are currently doing a huge amount of research on how to get a much more robust set of user experience metrics from a combination of different data sources.”
Improving user experience will simultaneously increase trust and accessibility, which will hopefully allow the uptake of digital health amongst people, professionals and populations to progress.