Digital healthcare can help build a more sustainable healthcare system, but it also comes with risk and uncertainty.
There are now some 350,000 health apps available, and only 20% meet quality thresholds. There is a huge opportunity to benefit population health, but only if we harness this power so it can be safely activated.
For digital products to truly have the power to revolutionise healthcare, we need to be just as responsible with them as we are with any other aspect of treatment. We need to have the right systems in place to help health and care professionals make safe and confident decisions about digital health technologies.
The Organisation for the Review of Health and Care Apps (ORCHA)’s world-leading suite of products feature the core infrastructure needed to deliver digital health safely in healthcare services. Our mission is to put the power of digital health safely into the hands of everyone who needs it.
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Our award-winning platform is trusted by healthcare providers in 12 countries across the world.
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We are used by providers in 70% of NHS regions.
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Professionals use our platform to recommend apps to patients.
71%
At 71%, patients have a great rate of engagement with ORCHA app recommendations.
Digital Health Formularies
ORCHA’s Digital Health Formularies allow health and care professionals to select the best digital health solutions and accurately recommend them to patients, with the governance needed for risk management.
Each Formulary contains digital health products that are continuously assessed to meet standards.
Once chosen, a digital health product can be recommended accurately to a patient by email or text. Recommendations are tracked to allow for product recall or replacement if needed, and there is also the opportunity to obtain patient agreement before downloading, which establishes effective risk management.
Our Formularies feature Toolkits for a number of patient pathways. Each Toolkit includes clear guidance on which are the most clinically and cost-effective products to recommend and when.
Usage reporting reveals new and unique insights around digital readiness within the workforce and population health.
Health App Libraries
Empower patient populations with trusted digital healthcare
There is a huge opportunity to tackle population health challenges, but only if we harness this power so it can be safely activated. How are you making safe digital healthcare available for your patients?
Build an online Health App Library or feed compliant apps into an existing website, to provide people with a single source of digital health solutions that meet relevant clinical, data and usability standards. Curate digital health products from more than 7,000 compliant products across a wide range of conditions, all continuously assessed to meet 350+ objective criteria.
The Library is easy to search and filter, featuring an information card for each app. This provides your service users with an overview of the product and its features, and a clear view of its assessment results, so that they can make an informed decision and find the best health app for their needs.
Digital Health Academy
Equip your workforce with the skills to deliver digital health to your patients.
ORCHA’s Digital Health Academy helps organisations to achieve digital workforce targets quickly and at no cost. Online, CPD-accredited digital health learning gives frontline staff the knowledge to adopt digital health safely into everyday practice.
Designed in collaboration with NHS clinicians and universities, it is delivered online in bite-sized, 5-minute videos, to suit busy schedules.
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Board introduce digital health into dementia services
There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK today, and numbers are set to rise to more than 1 million by 2025. Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Board identified that health apps can make a practical difference to people living with dementia and their carers. See their story and hear Jack and Kevin, who are living with dementia, discuss the difference health apps are making to their lives.
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