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.
ORCHA is the World’s leading health app evaluation and advisor organisation. We help governments, health and social care organisations to choose and deliver health apps that will safely make the biggest impact in terms of improving outcomes. Our tools help health professionals to prescribe and monitor usage of health apps. They’re proven to increase take-up and self-management of conditions.
Passionate about good apps, we provide a range of services to help app developers create better apps, and once great, get spotted by the people that matter.
This breakthrough approach to monitoring the market for new apps, evaluation and community adoption has won awards. We conduct reviews for NHS Digital and NHS England is accelerating the uptake of our service across the NHS, placing ORCHA in its National Innovation Accelerator Programme.
