Healthcare & Medical
An Introduction to Digital Health in Maternity Care - First Trimester
ORCHA
In this module, Charlotte Clayton (NHS Midwife & PhD Researcher) and Dr Fatima Ahmed (NHS Obstetrics & Gynaecology Registrar) explore the opportunities of digital health in maternity care, including existing challenges, and how embracing digital tools can aid improvements within the first trimester. In addition, this course looks at the maternity care pathway, including high scoring evidence-based apps that can support pregnancy through the first trimester.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
An Introduction to Digital Mental Health Solutions
ORCHA
Dr Laura Pogue, GP and ORCHA Mental Health Clinical Lead, leads the 20 minute video giving an overview of how digital can be embraced for mental health. During the module we explore the opportunities for digital health in mental health, give an overview of top mental health technologies and identify how and when digital health can be used in a mental health care pathway.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Apps for managing diabetes remotely
ORCHA
In this webinar we discuss the importance of digital health during COVID-19 and how apps can be used to provide much-needed remote support across clinical pathways, helping to relieve pressure on the NHS during this busy time. We hear from three innovators in the diabetes space, who will tell us about their apps and how health and care professionals can use it to provide remote support for patients and service users, followed by a Q&A session.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Apps for managing patient heart health at home
ORCHA
In this webinar we discuss the importance of digital health during COVID-19 with a focus on heart health, and how apps can be used to provide much-needed remote support across clinical pathways, helping to relieve pressure on the NHS during this busy time. Our three guest developers will discuss their products, how health and care professionals can use them to provide remote support for patients and service users, and how it can impact remote management of heart health.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Augment mental health services with digital health
ORCHA
In this webinar we discuss ways to build digital health tools into your mental health patient pathway. Last year Papyrus introduced an app library to offer instant, anonymous, help to those thinking about suicide. Papyrus staff are extending their services, using the website’s in-built functionality to recommend apps straight to service users’ phones by text or email where possible. Papyrus will share details of the programme, which apps they frequently share and where gaps in the mental health app ecosystem still exist.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Behavioural Health
ORCHA
In this module, Tim Blake (Managing Director of Semantic Consulting, a digital health consultancy & former CIO of the Tasmanian Health System) provides an insight into behavioural health and what impact digital health technologies can do to improve patient outcomes. The pitfalls of using outdated approaches, understanding extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, the role of apps in delivering behavioural interventions and an introduction to specific, behavioural health apps are also covered in this module.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
COVID-19 Digital Health Trends and 2021 Opportunities
ORCHA
In this webinar, Liz Ashall Payne, CEO, ORCHA, and Dr Sam Shah, FDSRCS, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor, ORCHA, discuss the ORCHA COVID-19 Digital Health Trends and 2021 Opportunities report in depth. We are joined by team members of the Physiotherapy Department at NHS Global Digital Exemplar, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. They discuss how, faced with the need to deliver treatment remotely, the team are testing different approaches to embedding digital health into systems for today and the long-term.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Diabetes Research
ORCHA
Dr Simon Leigh, Director of Research, ORCHA Health Ltd and Susan Gallagher, Dietician and Clinical Lead for Diabetes at ORCHA, discuss the evidence-based benefits of using digital health technologies (DHTs), such as health apps, to support patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This includes randomised controlled trials, published between 2010 and 2020, that measured HbA1c. This module explores how DHTs can reduce HbA1c levels, and how DHTs can support patients alongside medications and lifestyle interventions. Learn why DHTs are not just for young people, newly diagnosed patients or those who are inexperienced in living with diabetes.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Digital health approaches for winter pressures
ORCHA
Engaging apps have been designed to help older people to tackle many of the health challenges they face. Home Instead was the first social care provider to launch a health app library and tablet scheme for its clients in the UK. It worked with ORCHA to build a library and curate a list of apps perfect for its clients. Home Instead built tablets for clients, with a personalised selection of favourite apps already installed and ready to use. In this webinar ORCHA and Home Instead will discuss the programme and results seen.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Digital Health in Weight Management Services
ORCHA
In this webinar, Liz Ashall Payne, CEO, ORCHA, and Dr Sam Shah, FDSRCS, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor, ORCHA, are joined by, Jo Lewis, Programme and partnerships specialist, food, nutrition and wellbeing, BDA Yinka Makinde, Head of Innovation, NHSX and member of London's Child Obesity Taskforce Cathy Connolly, CEO, Care Merseyside. During the webinar, we discuss our latest report on digital health in weight management services, and Cathy Connolly will share how digital health has been a lifeline to many across Merseyside during COVID-19.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Digital Interventions for Behaviour Change
ORCHA
Liz Ashall-Payne, CEO at ORCHA, and Crystal Dennis, Interim Lead for Public Facing Digital Health Services at Our Dorset Digital will discuss how Our Dorset has embedded digital into behaviour change services and the results seen.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Digital Literacy
ORCHA
In this module, Tim Blake (Managing Director of Semantic Consulting, a digital health consultancy & former CIO of the Tasmanian Health System) provides an insight into digital literacy, what it means, how it can impact health, the socio-economic barriers associated with its implementation, to what extent digital literacy is required to use digital health technologies and that the digital literacy of the healthcare provider should also be taken into consideration in its implementation and design.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Do We Always Need a Randomised Control Trial?
ORCHA
Dr Simon Leigh, Director of Research at ORCHA, leads the 25 minute video giving an overview of the different types of evidence required for digital health technologies. During the module we explore the life cycle of digital health technologies as well as the pros, cons, appropriateness, and differentness between digital health evidence.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Getting an app into a clinical pathway
ORCHA
In this webinar we discuss the importance of digital health tools for remote management of patients during COVID-19, helping service users to stay healthy at home and reducing pressure on front-line staff. We also hear from Dr Tamsin Brown, NHS paediatrician, Clinical Entrepreneur and creator of the Hear Glue Ear app, on her experiences and advice for getting an app into a clinical pathway. Finally, we cover some specific examples of apps that can be used to support paediatrics services, and discuss the importance of engaging children and young people with digital health.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
Health apps for long COVID self-management
ORCHA
In this webinar, Dr Sam Shah, FDSRCS, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor, ORCHA, will be joined by Dr. Tom Micklewright, MBBS, MRCGP to discuss our new Health Apps for Long COVID Self-Management report in depth. We will also be joined by Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning and member of the NHS England Long COVID taskforce, to discuss what services are being planned and put in place for people with long COVID, what the gaps are in delivering this plan and what patients are looking for.
Webinar
Healthcare & Medical
How is Evidence Changing in Digital Health Over Time?
ORCHA
Dr Simon Leigh, Director of Research at ORCHA, leads the 18 minute video giving an overview of how evidence in digital health is changing over time. During the module we explore how digital health evidence has changed and continues to change over time, how acceptance of evidence has changed and how we appraise evidence moving forward.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Introduction to the function of digital health
ORCHA
In this series of 8 short videos, Liz Ashall Payne, CEO, ORCHA, discuss the ORCHA digital health academy, and covers key concepts, challenges and opportunities. Within the module we look at the current digital health landscape, including key statistics for health apps and mobile healthcare. Other topics include uptake of digital health tools by health and care professionals, the main barriers to using and adopting digital health apps, the effect of COVID-19 on digital health adoption and key case studies. Crucially we will examine regulations in this space, and how assessment and accreditation processes can help to overcome some of the challenges associated with digital health tools.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
MSK Elective Care Digital Academy Module
ORCHA
In this module, Euan McComiskie (Clinical Lead for Physiotherapy at ORCHA & a Digital Physiotherapist) explores the opportunities to demonstrate how digital health technologies can support MSK physiotherapy and elective care services, including the scale of this challenge, the innovators that are working in this area, examples of available apps and the role or ORCHA plays in supporting MSK physiotherapists to deliver the best patient outcomes.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Remote Monitoring of Diabetes with Digital Health Products
ORCHA
Susan Gallagher, dietician and ORCHA Diabetes Clinical Lead, leads the 18 minute video giving an overview of how digital health can support diabetes. During the module we explore the current landscape of digital health in diabetes, gain and understanding of how digital health can be used to support diabetes and look into the benefits of digital health in diabetes.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
The Digital Health Assessment Landscape
ORCHA
Tim Andrews, COO and Co-Founder of ORCHA, leads the 26 minute video giving an introduction to the digital health assessment landscape. During the module we explore what a digital health assessment is and the key domains that make up ORCHAs digital health assessment. We look into the importance of digital health assessment and the challenges digital health poses as well as the importance of digital health assessment globally.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
The Future of Digital Health Regulations
ORCHA
Tim Andrews (COO and Co-Founder of ORCHA) provides an insight into the reasons for creating digital health pathways and toolkits within healthcare systems and how they are typically adopted into practice. He also addresses classifications of Digital Health Technologies (DHTs), with a focus on ensuring safe adoption and appropriate selection at different stages of use (i.e. administrative, clinical and patient facing technologies).
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
The importance of prescribing digital health
ORCHA
In this series of 7 short videos, Liz Ashall Payne, CEO, ORCHA, and Andy Jeans, Director of Delivery at ORCHA discuss the ORCHA digital health academy, and in particular the features available to ORCHA pro-account holders. Building on An Introduction to the Function of Digital Health, this module will examine digital health prescription in more detail. Starting with the importance of prescribing digital health, through the module we will explore different ways of prescribing digital health products, the benefits and challenges of each, and the importance of using methods that mirror drug or treatment prescription. We will also demonstrate how to use your ORCHA Pro Account to efficiently find and prescribe the best digital health apps for your needs.
Online Course
Healthcare & Medical
Winter Pressures
ORCHA
Dr Tom Micklewright, a GP and Clinical Director at ORCHA, leads the 24 minute video giving an introduction to how digital health can support winter pressures. During the module we explore how digital health can help with winter pressures, the evidence supporting digital health, examples and case studies of where this has been done and we take a look into where in the patient journey digital health can support winter pressures.
Online Course
