On 26th February 2020 at Sci-Tech Daresbury (Vanguard House, Floor 2, boardroom), ORCHA and the University of Nottingham will be running a workshop with commissioners of mental health services.

Well-designed algorithmic systems have great potential to improve mental healthcare, however, there is a lack of use cases in this area to understand the ethical, social and political challenges and uncertainties to be addressed. To disentangle risks from opportunities, ORCHA are supporting Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos, Associate Professor of Digital Technology and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham.

For the proposed project, we will use the UnBias Toolkit, which has been designed not just for critical thinking but for civic thinking, supporting a more collective approach to imagining the future. This project will feed into NIHR MindTech and Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. Our goals are (1) to provide a multidisciplinary perspective, involving a representative and inclusive group of stakeholders to discuss issues of trust in algorithmic mediated systems and the organisations that create them, and (2) generate more use cases to reflect on current and potential applications uses of algorithms and artificial intelligence in mental healthcare.

The next step in the project is to run a series of workshops with Commissioners of Mental Health Services. If you are interested in being part of these workshops or would like to know more about how you can get involved, please get in touch with Paul Davies, ORCHA Associate, at paul.davies@orcha.co.uk

Sign-up for the first workshop in the series for free by clicking here.

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ORCHA is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring SEHTA’s 2020 International MedTech Expo & Conference, which is taking place on 26th March at Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel.

Come and join us at this prestigious event to meet other like-minded SMEs involved in Digital, Devices and Diagnostics.

This event is The SME focused healthcare event for driving collaborations between Business, Care & Clinicians & Academics.

The Conference and Expo aims to help delegates:

• Understand: Make sense of the complexities of healthcare support and challenges of accessing the NHS
• Find: Funding opportunities (public sector, private, NHS)
• Navigate: Regulatory, legal and IP issues
• Identify: Current clinical challenges in the NHS

Opportunity: to arrange a 1:1 with other delegates using our 1:1 portal (available from January 2020)

For more information and to register your interest, please click here.

SEHTA is a health technology network organisation, providing business support for the benefit of its members who represent health technology SMEs, health professionals, care providers and academia.

Founded in 2005 as an organisation to understand and meet the needs of small healthcare businesses, SEHTA is one of the largest networks of individuals from Academia, Business and Care/Clinicians (with over 1,300 members), with the purpose of improving the health and care of the citizens of the UK as well as increasing wealth. It does this by offering support on a one-to-one basis through its business support services and one-to-many through workshops, training and other events.

The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) is delighted to be exhibiting at Arab Health 2020 from 27^th to 30^th January. If you would like to learn more about implementing robust digital health solutions into healthcare delivery, why not visit ORCHA at stand H2.G50Q in the ABHI UK Pavilion?

ORCHA Co-Founder and CEO, Liz Ashall-Payne, will be exhibiting our digital health solution alongside Business Development Lead, George Kowalski, as part of the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN). The fifteen AHSNs work with patients, industry, and the health and care sector, in order to enable the most effective digital solutions to reach more patients more quickly.

As the world’s leading health app evaluation and distribution organisation, one of ORCHA’s primary objectives is to implement safe health and care apps into patient pathways and primary care. ORCHA’s extensive App Library, comprising almost 6,000 health and care apps, enables end users to access the most effective and trustworthy digital health solutions which best fit their individual needs.

In line with the NHS’s Long Term Plan to transform health and social care, ORCHA unlocks the power of digital health for the benefit of patients, professionals and populations across the world. ORCHA offers unique app review, accreditation, curation and recommendation services. On a global scale, we help governments, and health and social care organisations, to support their service users with apps that will make the biggest impact in terms of improving outcomes.

With over 365,000 health apps on the market, ORCHA’s 260-point App Review process breaks through the noise of unregulated and untrustworthy apps. ORCHA addresses challenges such as awareness, access, trust and governance of health apps by providing an extensive App Library, the AppFinder. This digital service will be exhibited on ORCHA’s stand at Arab Health, where attendees will have the opportunity to see demonstrations of the App Library, and be able to search the platform themselves to discover profusion of evaluated health and care apps.

ORCHA’s AppFinder is an extensive, searchable App Library comprising almost 6,000 health and care apps, all of which have undergone ORCHA’s robust Review process. All apps on the AppFinder have been evaluated according to Clinical Assurance, User Experience and Data Privacy, meaning our platform is safe, efficient, and enables the best apps to be identified. Users can filter searches by numerous categories and subcategories, including health condition, age-range, country, key functions and features, and paid-for or free. ORCHA also provides customisable ‘microsite’ versions of the AppFinder, which organisations can purchase to drive uptake of health and care apps.

Another of ORCHA’s services is the Pro-Account, which is the key to embedding and integrating digital health into day-to-day care delivery. A Pro-Account provides all the tools and support required for professionals to interact safely and effectively with ORCHA’s digital health solutions, as well as providing health and care organisations and systems with the ability to monitor, manage and govern all elements of the digital health integration lifecycle. The Pro-Account allows health and care professionals to quickly find and recommend ORCHA’s digital health solutions directly to the end user, and includes functions such as: Favourites, Recently Recommended, Quick Search, and Advanced Search Features.

Liz Ashall-Payne, ORCHA’s Co-Founder and CEO, commented, “Arab Health 2020 is a fantastic opportunity for ORCHA to demonstrate the value of utilising safe digital health apps. Across our extensive collaborations with NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and Trusts, Local Authorities, charities, and health and care organisations in the Netherlands, we have seen the difference that our AppFinder has made. For instance, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust’s different clinical services have used the ORCHA App Library to support patients in self-management through the use of healthcare apps. This has allowed patients to take better ownership of their health and, crucially, engage with their care in a safe manner.”

If you are interested in acquiring a bespoke AppFinder Library with Pro-Accounts and other customisable features for your organisation, or would simply like to learn more about how ORCHA are harnessing digital, mhealth solutions to deliver better care for patients, please do visit stand H2.G50Q to speak with ORCHA’s representatives. Our stand will be demonstrating the App Library and how to utilise a Pro-Account across all four days of Arab Health 2020.

If you want to attend an event to stay abreast of the market, we recommend attending:

HTN Digital Week – Tune in to HTN Digital Week on 20th January at 12pm to hear ORCHA CEO and Co-Founder, Liz Ashall Payne’s, webinar on ‘Determining and Evaluating the Quality of Health Apps’. Click here to learn more and register for the webinar.

Arab Health – We can’t wait to exhibit at Arab Health from 27th-30th January in Dubai! As the largest collection of healthcare product manufacturers and service providers under one roof, Arab Health is a one-stop shop for all your healthcare sourcing and procurement needs. There will be thousands of products to explore, coming in from more than 66 countries. Click here to learn more about ORCHA’s products and services in advance of the event.

SEHTA/ORCHA mHealth App Developer Workshop – Geared especially towards innovators working in mHealth, ORCHA and SEHTA’s workshop on 26th February aims to give app developers clear guidance on how they can prepare for and conform to the new EU medical device regulations (MDR), which come into effect from 26th May 2020. The workshop will consist of quick pace presentations, followed by panel discussions.

Future Health 2020 – Held on 17th-18th March, Future Health is a trade show with a global reach across the healthcare industry, organised in association with UKIHMA. It brings together public and private sector GPs, Consultants, government and policymakers from over 70 countries.

ORCHA will be holding an App Zone at Future Health, where the most compelling apps for the global healthcare market will be showcased. Come along and meet the developers and the ORCHA Team, and find out how we are revolutionising the digital health industry.