ORCHA works with CCGs and Providers to develop health app portals, allowing professionals easy and clear access to a verified resource, enabling them to find and recommend the best apps to patients.
ORCHA
ORCHA
24th November 2017
0 “Health and care apps can offer huge benefit to patients, really empowering them to manage and improve their health. However, there is a huge choice out there, so ORCHA really helps all involved to understand which are the best and most trustworthy.”
Dr George Dingle, GP, Morecambe Bay area
Summary:
ORCHA works with CCGs and Providers to develop health app libraries which integrate with local systems and strategies. This allows professionals easy and clear access to a verified resource, allowing them to enhance services and outcomes by finding and prescribing the best apps to patients. ORCHA is currently working with a growing number of health and care economies which enable local populations to gain access to a trusted health app store so they can choose apps to keep them well.
Challenge/problem identified:
ORCHA provides a live resource of reviewed health and care apps which can be easily searched, compared, recommended, and downloaded through its easy-to-use platform. Thorough reviews and a simple scoring system highlight functional capabilities of the apps, making it easier for users to confidently and quickly compare and choose the best apps.
Impact:
- Data collation and reporting of app usage by population, patient and professional group, to help assess and prove digital strategies, investment and outcomes
- Activating over eight million people and patients to use healthcare apps in England
- Over 90% of healthcare professionals believe that health apps will increase their knowledge of patients’ conditions*
*2015 Research Now Group study of 500 healthcare professionals and 1,000 health app users
Fellow: Liz Ashall-Payne
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