ORCHA

ORCHA is the worlds largest reviewed health app library. This library has been built so that you and your patients  can easily search, compare, recommend, and download the best health apps through our easy to use platform. Our thorough reviews and simple scoring system also highlight functional capabilities of the apps making it easier for you to confidently and quickly compare and choose the best apps.  www.orcha.co.uk

The key benefit of the ORCHA solution is to individual patients and citizens in supporting them to find solutions they can trust to improve their health and wellbeing and in also supporting clinical professional groups across health and care providers, who wish to recommend, prescribe and clinically implement apps.  We have hundreds of GPs, clinicians and carers who are using this feature to prescribe apps to their patients, and clients. For example, we are working with in primary care where local practices are using the system to recommend the best smoking cessation app to their patient lists known to smoke. We are also working with care assistant who prescribe apps as a part of health checks. Another example is in Mental health, where patients are provided with an app at their assessment or treatment appointment. Here apps have been seen to reduce patients need for therapy, drugs and have also been used to achieve better outcome measures across the whole pathway.