MEDITECH Expanse Now vs Virtualis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MEDITECH Expanse Now
This application allows physicians to securely access and manage their electronic health record workload remotely. It provides anytime, anywhere access to essential patient data and task management features, enabling efficient care delivery without needing a desktop computer.
- Remote EHR workload access
- Task management
- Patient data viewing
- Prescription refill requests
- Message and task creation
- Call management
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Expanse Now enables physicians to securely access their Expanse EHR workload and perform tasks remotely using intuitive mobile device conventions and voice commands. Providers on call or covering for others can remotely manage routine tasks wherever they are, without the need to connect to the full EHR from a desktop or laptop computer, ensuring anytime/anywhere access to the most essential elements of their Expanse EHR. With Expanse Now, physicians can: • View their own workload items, and items of providers for whom they are covering • Receive notifications of new workload items • View patient result notifications • View patient demographics, allergies, medications, and problems • Review relevant patient clinical data • Manage prescription refill requests • View and return patient calls, and call care team members • Create, forward messages/tasks • Mark items as read/unread To use Expanse Now, please contact your organization’s IT department.
Virtualis
This AI-powered communication app helps healthcare teams streamline patient care. It allows nurses and physicians to create consultation requests, automatically grades patient acuity, and recommends specialties. Users can also engage in direct and group chats.
- AI-powered acuity grading
- Consultation request creation
- Specialty recommendations
- Direct and group chat
- Patient condition assessment
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Virtualis is a AI-powered clinical acuity graded communication application conceived by healthcare practitioners for healthcare and hospital teams. The mobile application enables healthcare nurses and physicians a communication and chat solution that allows users to: - Create consultation requests to physicians and nurse practitioners based on patient disposition. - Virtualis uses a proprietary LLM to automatically grade inputted patient condition based on low, moderate or high acuity levels - Acuity levels are graded red, yellow or greeen and users can be recommended a specialty based on acuity scope - Users can also direct chat and group chat with other users of the platform.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Virtualis at 100% against MEDITECH Expanse Now's 0%. Virtualis also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). MEDITECH Expanse Now's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Virtualis holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MEDITECH Expanse Now has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of MEDITECH Expanse Now's written reviews are positive against 100% of Virtualis's.
MEDITECH Expanse Now ships an update every 5 weeks, Virtualis every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MEDITECH Expanse Now | Virtualis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meditech | LiveMed Health |
Customer experience
MEDITECH Expanse Now
Virtualis
In-app purchases
MEDITECH Expanse Now
No in-app purchases
Virtualis
No in-app purchases









