Building global trust in digital health, through proven, standards-based evaluation.
ORCHA’s assessment frameworks provide a consistent, evidence-based way to measure digital health compliance and quality, helping suppliers gain recognition and enabling healthcare systems to procure with confidence.
With over 38,000 assessments completed across 9,000+ products, ORCHA’s frameworks are the world’s most widely used standards for digital health assurance.
The world’s most trusted foundation for assessing digital health quality and compliance.
The NHS standard for safe, effective, and compliant digital health technologies.
The U.S. benchmark for privacy, safety, and clinical quality in digital health.
A unified Nordic framework ensuring trusted, cross-border digital health adoption.
The international quality standard defining safe and reliable health software worldwide.
The trusted Indian benchmark for data privacy and compliance under the DPDP Act 2023.
Our ORCHA Global Baseline Review (OBR) is a 350+ point digital health product assessment that underpins over 70% of the world’s national and regional digital health accreditation models.
It is used to evaluate digital health products across five domains:
Data & Privacy – how information is handled, stored, and protected.
Clinical Regulation & Safety – compliance with medical device and clinical safety standards.
Evidence & Outcomes – proof of effectiveness and impact.
Usability & Accessibility – ease of use and inclusivity.
Ongoing Compliance – continuous monitoring for updates and changes.
Built for objectivity and repeatability, OBR ensures every product is assessed to the same standard, creating a level playing field across the market.
Developed by the NHS, the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) is an assessment framework you can complete yourself, or we can do it for you at ORCHA for independent verification.
Your digital health product, or app, must meet DTAC standards for NHS health systems in the UK to recommend it to the public or commission it.
The Digital Health Assessment Framework (DHAF), created by the American College of Physicians (ACP) and American Telemedicine Association (ATA) in collaboration with ORCHA, ensures your digital health product, or app, meets US standards and regulations, including HIPAA.
We can help you pass a DHAF assessment, to encourage healthcare professionals and patients to adopt your digital health product.
The Nordic Digital Health Evaluation Criteria (NordDEC) is the world’s first cross-border digital health accreditation system spanning five countries, accelerating the Nordic region’s aim to be the most sustainable and integrated health region in the world by 2030.
We can help ensure your digital health product is compliant against the standards set out by the NordDEC.
The CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 digital health ISO is a new international technical specification for digital health products to meet, initiated by the European Commission.
ORCHA is part of the consortium working on the EU funded project and can help you to take steps to get ready for CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 certification today.
Suppliers get faster market access and health systems have confidence in consistency
Dynamic, evidence-based assurance model that's relevant to the realities of software-as-a-service
A single, standardised foundation that scales globally but customises locally
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Our frameworks underpin ORCHA Assured, a tiered certification that verifies digital health technologies against essential standards.
Bronze – confirms baseline compliance across privacy, safety, and usability.
Silver – adds deeper evidence and advanced usability checks.
Each ORCHA Assured product carries the ORCHA Guarantee - our commitment to independent, defensible assessment that reduces procurement risk and builds trust.
When the NHS, health boards, and international health systems need a trusted way to assess, procure, and deploy digital health, they turn to ORCHA.
For over a decade, we’ve been the partner of choice for NHS Trusts, ICBs, national regulators, and ministries of health across Europe, North America, and Australasia. These organisations rely on ORCHA to:
Using the ORCHA Global Baseline Review, which underpins NHS DTAC, US DHAF and more
With over 31,000 independent assessments completed
Millions of patients and clinicians already access trusted tools via ORCHA-powered formularies
Talk to us about building your own assessment or explore how ORCHA’s frameworks can support your assurance goals.