This short guide of top tips from ORCHA helps to identify some of the key areas to consider when developing or looking to improve apps, helping you navigate your way to making your app one of the best on the market.

We are delighted to announce that ORCHA’s platforms and services have now been approved on the Government’s Digital Marketplace G-Cloud 11 framework. As a supplier on the Digital Marketplace, ORCHA’s services can be purchased by any central government, local council, NHS Trust or public sector body. Our solutions allow public sector organisations and healthcare professionals to safely unlock the potential of digital health apps.

ORCHA’s services that are available for purchase on the G-Cloud 11 Digital Marketplace include:

• Local engagement microsites, including tailorable app libraries – In order to drive digital health uptake for populations, ORCHA’s service provides locally branded and tailored microsites. Each microsite features a library of apps that have been evaluated in accordance with ORCHA’s robust Review process, thereby ensuring transparency in terms of data privacy, clinical assurance and user experience. This helps public sector organisations to overcome health challenges in their region by increasing mHealth activation within populations.
• Professional app recommendation and prescription – ORCHA’s Pro Account service enables clinicians and other healthcare professionals to embrace digital health and increase patient activation. With our Pro Account prescription tool, health and care professionals can find and recommend to patients the safest and most clinically effective health apps to suit individual requirements. As such, ORCHA facilitates the implementation of health and care apps into everyday practice and primary care pathways.

Please find ORCHA on G-Cloud 11 by clicking here, where you can read the full details about the platforms and services we offer as part of our advanced digital health review and accreditation solution.

We are delighted that ORCHA has a chapter in SEHTA’s ‘2019 Accessing the NHS Guide for SMEs: Moving Forward’. The guide is SEHTA’s second Accessing the NHS Guide, which gives advice, understanding and knowledge to health technology SMEs wanting to access the NHS.

Dr David Parry, CEO of SEHTA, says, “The SEHTA team and its partner Hill Dickinson are very proud of this guide. We believe it is unique in providing a readable, informative and comprehensive document to help companies with their aspirations to sell to the NHS.”

ORCHA’s chapter focusses on our work in ‘Digital Health (Apps) & Accreditation’. ORCHA’s CEO, Liz Ashall-Payne, discusses the way in which our app Review Process ensures that new digital health technologies meet appropriate safety and usability standards. Ashall-Payne also explains ORCHA’s work with NHS Digital, in that we support NHS Digital’s Digital Assessment ‘DAQ’ process, thereby aiding the creation and development of an NHS Apps Library.

Click here for your copy of the guide and learn more about how to access the NHS as an SME.