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Virtual healthcare is a term that’s sometimes used synonymously with telehealth or telemedicine — but they’re not the same thing.

Virtual healthcare

Virtual healthcare refers to the “virtual visits” that take place between patients and clinicians via communications technology — the video and audio connectivity that allows “virtual” meetings to occur in real time, from virtually any location. Eg Telerain, Practo, Vosita

A virtual visit can be a videoconference between a doctor and a patient at home

Virtual healthcare also better enables specialists to monitor situations or procedures from remote locations.

Telehealth

Telehealth is a very broad category of solutions that service patients at a distance — so it could be doctor visits at a distance, it could be chronic condition management, it could be managing high-risk pregnancy. But doing that at a distance, doing it remotely.”

Telehealth technology may be a telephone, it could be a videoconferencing capability, it could be an IVR system.

Virtual healthcare is actually a subset of telehealth, which is a broader term encompassing the entirety of remote and/or technology-driven healthcare.