Comparison

e vs Epic Welcome

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

e

This app enables secure sharing of voice, text, photos, data, and live video for healthcare professionals. It supports HIPAA-compliant communication, improving patient care and decision-making in various medical scenarios.

Highlights
  • HIPAA-secure voice, text, photo, data sharing
  • Live video streaming
  • Record and log for quality assessment
  • Patient privacy protection
  • Real-world use cases for stroke, trauma, and more
  • Enhanced situational awareness
Features
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GD e-Bridge(TM) Mobile Telemedicine App for EMS, Public Safety and Healthcare. GD e-Bridge is listed in the FirstNet App Catalog™. With GD e-Bridge Mobile Telemedicine, share HIPAA-secure voice, text, photos, data, video clips and stream live with confidence and ease using your smartphone, tablet, Toughbook or PC. Plus record, and log for quality assessment, training and medical-legal documentation. The results? Speedy and reliable multi-media communication with EMS, physicians, specialists and hospitals anywhere. Improved decision-making. Enhanced situational awareness. Features to help provide better quality, and more cost-effective patient care. The Future of Connected Care is Already in Your Hands. Protect patient privacy: - HIPAA-compliant - Password protected - Fully encrypted - Photos, videos can only be sent to an approved network - Photos, videos not stored in device gallery Get the Full Picture: Real-World Uses for GD e-Bridge - Stroke – Send recorded or live streaming video of the prehospital stroke assessment to the hospital or stroke center. - Trauma – Share pictures from the scene of the mechanism of injury with trauma teams to help with decisions and team preparation. - Mobile integrated healthcare/community paramedicine – Enable telemedicine consults between the patient and their physician with live streaming video. - Burns or wounds – Share pictures to enable physicians to better advise EMS on wound care prior to arrival and make optimal transport decisions. - Transport refusals – Video against medical advice patient refusals for liability protection. - Mass casualty – Send pictures, video clips or live streaming video from the scene to physicians, emergency communications or command centers to improve triage, situational awareness and resource allocation. - Bio/chemical/hazmat event – Photos, video clips or live streaming from the scene can help minimize the number of responders, healthcare providers and members of the public exposed, improve triage and ensure patients are taken to facilities equipped to handle such emergencies. GD e-Bridge tracking feature: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Epic Welcome

This app allows patients to complete medical intake processes digitally. Patients can respond to questionnaires and e-sign necessary documents before their appointments. The available features depend on the healthcare organization's license.

Highlights
  • Patient self-service options
  • Respond to questionnaires
  • E-sign documents
  • Digital care process start
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Welcome offers patients self-service options at the start of the care process. With Welcome, patients can: · Respond to questionnaires · E-sign documents Your organization needs to license Welcome and be on Epic’s 2018 version or greater and will determine the exact feature set.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

e and Epic Welcome both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Epic Welcome's written reviews are positive against 80% of e's. e's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for e against 4.3 for Epic Welcome. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: e has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of e's written reviews are positive against 100% of Epic Welcome's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

e ships an update every 5 weeks, Epic Welcome every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
e versus Epic Welcome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereEpic Welcome
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (15 ratings)4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size251 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGeneral DevicesEpic

Customer experience

e

All ratings15 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Epic Welcome

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

e

No in-app purchases

None

Epic Welcome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is e free?
e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Epic Welcome free?
Epic Welcome is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, e or Epic Welcome?
Epic Welcome is rated higher. e averages 4.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Epic Welcome averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do e or Epic Welcome have ads?
Neither e nor Epic Welcome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, e or Epic Welcome?
e ships an update every 5 weeks, and Epic Welcome every 2 months. Most recently, e was updated on November 6, 2026 and Epic Welcome on November 6, 2026.

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