Wellmind Health’s Be Mindful and Pathway through Pain NHS-approved digital therapeutics are rated the highest-scoring apps for depression and chronic pain respectively in ORCHA’s AppFinder library in its latest review update.
ORCHA, the digital health evaluation organisation, regularly updates its review platform to ensure new medical, IT and usability standards are embedded into its review process. The latest platform update is its most robust and effective to date.
The Be Mindful Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programme and Pathway through Pain Pain Management Programme (PMP) deliver significant and measurable long-term results, backed up by academic and clinical research studies, feedback from participants and providers, and confidential analytics. Course completers achieve outstanding reductions in levels of depression, anxiety and stress and significant improvements in the self-management of chronic pain.
Both web-based courses passed the NHS Digital DAQ2 assessment and are listed on the EMIS App Library, having passed rigorous NHS quality standards for clinical effectiveness, safety, security, usability and accessibility. They are provided to patients across the UK, from GP Surgeries and Pain Clinics to IAPT and Community Health Services, and support staff at corporates and professionals such as teachers, police officers, ambulance services and cancer nursing staff, as well as being available to individuals.
ORCHA’s independent review process identifies health and care apps that have clinical merit, are safe and quality assured, with the reviews populating regional and national health app libraries across the world. The ORCHA Review intelligent platform looks at the nature and purpose of technologies to identify, from more than 350 factors across the many digital health standards and measures, which ones it must meet. The ORCHA system then looks at how appropriately digital health technologies meet these relevant standards.
Liz Ashall-Payne, founding CEO of ORCHA said: “Our congratulations to the team at Wellmind Health for achieving such a high ORCHA score. We work hard behind the scenes with developers to meet standards industry wide. It is fantastic to see that Be Mindful and Pathway Through Pain are scoring so highly across professional assurance, data privacy and useability, which are all vital for good digital health.”
Wellmind Health CEO, Richard Latham, added: “We are delighted that both of our NHS-approved digital courses have achieved even stronger ratings to become the highest-scoring apps in categories in the latest ORCHA platform update. With an ever-growing number of apps available and increasing interest in digital interventions and the benefits they can deliver, ORCHA’s valuable work continually assessing thousands of apps through their rigorous review process is vital to ensuring patients and individuals are provided with safe and effective health apps.”
