Introduction to the Orcha digital academy

Liz Ashall Payne, CEO at Orcha Health, introduces the digital academy, a free online training course to give you the skills to build digital health into your everyday practice. The foundation courses have been designed for all health and care professionals, to give an introduction to digital health and the core building blocks of knowledge. Each course is made up of a series of short videos.

Liz Ashall-Payne

Contributor: Liz Ashall-Payne

Orcha Health

Watch Time: 4m

Published

20 March 2023

Theme

Digital Transformation

Sub Theme

Digital literacy

About

Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA), is the world’s number one technology provider for delivering safe digital health. We're sharing their free online training course which gives you the skills to build digital health into your everyday practice.

Foundation module 1: an introduction to digital health

F1.1 Introduction

This module introduces the field of digital health. We’ll look at the current digital health landscape, including key statistics for health apps and mobile healthcare.

F1.2 The digital health function and landscape

Find out how to check that digital health products are safe for you to recommend. Explore a safe way to make digital health product recommendations to patients.

F1.3 Digital health products and barriers to adoption

Learn about the five barriers to the adoption of digital health and health apps. ORCHA have been working to break down these barriers for the last six years.

F1.4 The COVID pandemic and digital health

There are solutions that we can embrace, particularly around diagnostics and interventions that would potentially replace the need for therapeutic solutions and our time. 

F1.5 An overview of digital health accreditation

This resource will discuss regulations, standards, and best practice in the area of digital health. The first puzzle is which of those regulations fall into which domain areas.

F1.6 The ORCHA assessment accreditation process

Learn how ORCHA are supporting assessment frameworks, making sure that the assessment is proportionate and that there are economies of scale across assessment frameworks.

F1.7 Supporting the digital patient

This session will explain what you can tell your patients and clients on which solutions they should be using to get the best health outcome.

F1.8 Case study examples

In this session, Liz will share a couple of case studies from ORCHAs work, working across the health and care system.

Foundation module 2: the importance of prescribing digital health

F2.1 Prescribing digital health: an introduction

Why we need a mechanism and a system for recommending digital health technologies to our patients.

F2.2 Recommending digital health technologies

Learn and understand the different approaches to recommending, or even prescribing digital health technologies to patients.

F2.3 Introduction to the Clinical Modules

Explore clinical modules of interest. Ranging from mental health, cardiology etc.