The Organisation for the Review of Health and Care Applications (ORCHA)

ORCHA is the world’s leading health app evaluation and distribution organisation. It offers unique app review, accreditation, curation and recommendation services. Across the world, ORCHA helps organisations to support their service users with apps that will make the biggest impact in terms of improving outcomes, as well as arming healthcare professionals with an app recommendation tool. ORCHA supports national programmes across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and Asia to increase digital health access and adoption. In the UK, ORCHA supports the national NHS Digital programme, and provides services to 25% of NHS organisations and health professionals, serving a population of 50 million. By increasing access to clinically assured health apps, ORCHA empowers health professionals, organisations, populations and app developers to embrace digital health. To date, ORCHA has reviewed almost 6,000 health apps in terms of Data Privacy, Clinical Assurance and User Experience.