The demand for healthcare is growing, and will continue to grow in the midst of ageing populations, the pandemic, and a move towards preventative treatments.
Digital health is rising to the call of these complex issues and empowering patients, but it also comes with risk and uncertainty.
Right now 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.
Digital solutions help Trusts and Primary Care to deliver the same care, in a different way. The Elective Care Transformation Programme is leading transformative change, as face-to-face appointments delivered in outpatient care will be reduced by up to a third, by embracing technology and arranging services around patients’ lives. In Primary Care, digital health will increasingly be part of the ARSS roles.
But 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 features the core infrastructure needed to deliver digital health safely in healthcare services.
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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, 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 safe digital health.
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.
Easy to search and filter, the library features an information card for each app, providing your patients with 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 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 this target quickly and at no cost. Online, CPD-accredited digital health learning, it 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.
Case study
A coalition of NHS organisations seamlessly integrate mental health services and digital tools
Led by CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a coalition of NHS organisations including Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust and West London NHS Trust, uses next-generation therapeutic interventions and digital tools to provide the best possible care for patients – including the use of digitally and clinically assured digital health solutions from their ORCHA Health App Library.
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