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Best Telemedicine Software for Clinics and Healthcare Providers

 

The best telemedicine software depends on what you’re replacing. For simple, low-cost video visits, Doxy.me and VSee are the usual starting points, with free plans and paid tiers from $29 per provider a month. Practices that want scheduling, notes, and billing in one place usually pick a practice suite such as SimplePractice or Healthie. Organizations that need their own branded platform, hosting choices, or AI that goes beyond note-taking should compare Q-Consultation, Healee, Curoflow, and VCDoctor.

In simple terms, telemedicine software is the technology that lets your own clinicians see, message, and treat patients remotely: video visits, secure chat, booking, intake, and records. It does not supply doctors. If you need clinicians, prescribing, or pharmacy as well, you’re looking for a clinical infrastructure provider, which is a different purchase.

We build Q-Consultation, a telemedicine platform used by clinics and digital health companies, on the same secure video and messaging infrastructure QuickBlox provides to developers. That means we have a stake in this comparison. So we’ve included the tools we often lose to, said plainly where each one is the better fit, and listed published prices wherever a vendor shares them.

 

Who This Comparison Is For

This page is for healthcare organizations that already have clinicians and need software to deliver care remotely: independent practices, multi-site clinics, behavioral health groups, specialty providers, and digital health startups. It compares telemedicine software providers, not telehealth services that patients use to see a doctor. For what that software includes, see What Is a Telehealth Platform?


Three Types of Telemedicine Software

Most buying mistakes happen because these three types of telemedicine software get compared as if they were the same product. One thing we see often: a clinic outgrows a simple video tool, moves to a practice suite for the scheduling, and then finds it can’t put its own brand or workflows on it.

Type What you get Typical buyer Platforms on this page
Ready-to-use video tools Browser-based video visits, waiting room, basic intake, low or no setup Solo clinicians and small practices Doxy.me, VSee
Practice suites with telehealth EHR, scheduling, billing, and client portal, with video built in Therapy, nutrition, and outpatient practices that want one system SimplePractice, Healthie
Branded, configurable platforms Your own domain and apps, custom workflows, integrations, hosting options Multi-site clinics, health systems, digital health companies Q-Consultation, Healee, Curoflow, VCDoctor

Best Telemedicine Software at a Glance

The table below summarizes all eight platforms; the sections that follow group them by type. Prices are list prices from each vendor’s own website, reviewed in October 2026. Capabilities and plans change often, so verify any requirement directly with the vendor before procurement.

Platform Best for Published starting price Hosting Important consideration
Doxy.me Simple, no-download video visits

Free; Premium $29/user/mo, billed annually

Hosted SaaS Limited branding and workflow control
VSee Practices that want a free start and room to grow Free; $29 and $49/provider/mo Hosted SaaS, plus APIs Full branding and AI notes are Enterprise only (quoted)
SimplePractice Solo and group therapy practices $49/mo (Starter); Plus $99 + $74 per added clinician Hosted SaaS Built around behavioral health; not brandable
Healthie Virtual-first wellness and nutrition practices $19/mo (Core, monthly billing) Hosted SaaS API access and AI charting are paid add-ons on higher plans
Q-Consultation for Healthcare Branded virtual care with built-in AI and AI agent workflows Not published; standard plans and custom quotes Managed cloud; private cloud or on-premises on Enterprise No built-in billing or full EHR; integrates with yours
Healee Fast launch of a branded patient app Not published Single-tenant hosted No self-hosting option
Curoflow European and UK clinics €39/staff member/mo Hosted in Europe HIPAA not mentioned; US buyers should confirm
VCDoctor Budget buyers who want a one-time fee

$1,500 one-time plus 10–20% per consultation; per-provider plans from $2,500 one-time

Hosted, or on your own server

Below the top tier, the mobile app is published under VCDoctor’s account, not yours


Category 1: Ready-to-Use Telemedicine Software

1. Doxy.me

Best for: solo clinicians and small practices that want video visits working today, at little or no cost.

Doxy.me is the default telehealth tool for many small practices. Patients join from a browser link with no download, wait in a virtual waiting room, and the clinician starts the call. Paid plans add group calls, screen sharing, file transfer, intake and consent forms, clinic branding, and add-on apps, including an AI scribe. It offers a BAA on every plan, including Free.

Pricing is among the simplest here: a free plan and Premium at $29 per user a month, billed annually. Custom solutions are quoted. (Doxy.me pricing)

For a side-by-side with Q-Consultation, see QuickBlox vs Doxy.me.

Consider before choosing Doxy.me:

  • Branding stops at your clinic name and logo on Doxy.me’s interface; you don’t get your own domain or apps.
  • Workflow customization and integrations are limited compared with configurable platforms.
  • If you need scheduling, records, and billing, you’ll run Doxy.me alongside other systems.

2. VSee

Best for: practices that want a free starting point and a clear upgrade path to a larger, more configurable deployment.

VSee has been building telehealth since 2008 and covers more ground than most ready-to-use tools: video, waiting rooms, intake, scheduling, payments, visit notes, remote patient monitoring devices, and telemedicine carts and kits. It advertises FedRAMP High authorization and offers a BAA on every clinic plan, including Free.

Plans run from Free to Plus at $29 and Premium at $49 per provider a month; Premium adds a custom logo and a $200 setup fee. Full branding, a branded mobile app, SSO, custom workflows, and AI SOAP notes sit in Enterprise, which is quoted and usually an annual contract. (VSee pricing)

For a side-by-side with Q-Consultation, see QuickBlox vs VSee.

Consider before choosing VSee:

  • The features that make it comparable to a branded platform are Enterprise-only, so compare Enterprise quotes, not the $29 plan.
  • It’s hosted SaaS; check data-residency needs if you can’t use VSee’s cloud.

Category 2: Practice Management Software With Telehealth

3. SimplePractice

Best for: solo and group therapy practices that want telehealth inside the same system as their notes, scheduling, and billing.

SimplePractice is practice management software first, with telehealth included on every plan and no limits on session length or number of appointments. Plus adds group telehealth for up to 15 clients and a booking widget for your website. An optional Care Aide add-on provides AI note drafting and live session support.

Starter is $49 a month, Essential $79 and Plus $99, with Plus adding clinicians at $74 each for 2–5 clinicians. Care Aide is $59 a month for the account owner and $49 per added clinician, at standard rates. (SimplePractice pricing, plan guide)

Consider before choosing SimplePractice:

  • It’s built around behavioral health; medical specialties may find workflows don’t fit.
  • Patients see SimplePractice’s experience, not a platform branded as yours.
  • AI notes and e-prescribing are paid add-ons on top of the plan price.

4. Healthie

Best for: virtual-first wellness, nutrition, and outpatient practices that want an EHR, client portal, and telehealth together.

Healthie combines charting, scheduling, a client portal, payments, and a mobile app with individual video visits on every plan. Group telehealth and webinars come with Plus and Group. AI charting is an add-on for Plus and Group, and API access is an add-on for Group only.

Published prices run from Core at $19 a month and Essentials at $49 to Plus at $129 and Group from $149, plus $50 per added clinician (monthly billing; annual billing is slightly lower). (Healthie pricing)

Consider before choosing Healthie:

  • The app is Healthie’s, not a white-label app under your brand.
  • Developer access costs extra and is limited to the Group plan.

Category 3: Branded Telemedicine Software Providers

5. QuickBlox Q-Consultation

Best for: clinics, health systems, and digital health companies that want a telemedicine platform under their own brand, with AI-assisted intake and documentation and a choice of where it’s hosted.

Q-Consultation for Healthcare gives patients and care teams secure video and chat, self-booking with email and SMS reminders, private virtual waiting rooms, document sharing with e-signatures, and audit logs. Its AI Agent handles intake and symptom collection, generates SOAP notes, and suggests ICD-10 and CPT codes. You set the logo, colors, domain, and patient experience and connect EHRs and other systems through QuickBlox APIs and SDKs.

Where Q-Consultation differs most is that its AI goes beyond notes. Clinicians also get AI Answer Assist, which helps them respond to patients, and AI Translate for conversations across languages, both built into the platform. You can layer in the QuickBlox AI Agent workflow builder to run AI patient intake with handover to a clinician and to automate workflows for a range of healthcare uses. Most platforms on this page treat AI as a note-taker; Q-Consultation lets you automate the work around the visit as well.

You can also extend it with the same SDKs developers use to build their own healthcare apps, and on Enterprise run it in your own cloud or on-premises instead of our managed cloud. Customers such as Theos Health have launched a branded app in under two weeks.

Pricing isn’t published: there are standard plans, with custom pricing for complex requirements. A BAA is available.

Consider before choosing Q-Consultation:

  • It isn’t an EHR or billing system; it integrates with the ones you use.
  • Private cloud and on-premises hosting are Enterprise options, not part of standard plans.
  • You’ll need a conversation with sales for pricing.

Explore QuickBlox Q-Consultation


6. Healee

Best for: organizations that want a branded patient app live fast, on standard workflows.

Healee is a Bulgarian company with a US office, and its platform covers intake, triage and scheduling, messaging, video, payments, native iOS and Android apps, and an AI schedule optimizer. Each client runs on single-tenant infrastructure, and Healee supports both HIPAA and GDPR. It says a standard configuration goes live in 5 days, or 1–2 weeks with custom workflows. Healee runs its own consumer marketplace on the same platform. (Healee)

Pricing isn’t published.

Consider before choosing Healee:

  • Hosting is Healee’s single-tenant cloud; there’s no own-cloud or on-premises option.
  • Speed comes from standard configuration; ask what deeper changes cost and how long they take.

7. Curoflow

Best for: clinics in Europe and the UK that want a full branded clinic platform with transparent pricing.

Curoflow, founded in Stockholm in 2018, offers a patient portal with chat and video, self-booking, automations, payments, an EHR, a marketing module, a website builder, and a branded patient app in six languages. It is CE-marked as a medical device under the EU MDR, ISO 27001:2022 certified, and hosted in Europe.

Pricing is fully published: Standard €39 and Growth €75 per staff member a month, with unlimited patients and no lock-in. Modules cost extra, including the EHR at €35 per staff member and a branded patient app at €549 a month. (Curoflow pricing)

Consider before choosing Curoflow:

  • Its site doesn’t mention HIPAA, so US organizations should confirm compliance and a BAA directly.
  • Add-on modules can change the real per-seat cost, so price the full set you need.

8. VCDoctor

Best for: budget-conscious buyers who prefer a one-time fee and the option to host on their own server.

VCDoctor, from the Indian software firm Dream Soft4u, offers branded video, chat, scheduling, patient records, e-prescriptions, payments, and reminders, with web and mobile apps. Its Complete tier is hosted on your own server, with the mobile app published under your own account, and is delivered in about four weeks.

It sells on a one-time setup fee rather than a straight subscription. The US Starter plan costs $1,500 (web) or $2,500 (web and mobile) up front, plus a fee of 10–20% on each consultation depending on monthly volume. The Growth plan costs $2,500 or $3,500 up front, plus $500 a quarter for support covering up to 10 providers, then $30–45 per added provider a month. Complete, on your own server, is quoted. Professional and Premium versions of each tier cost more. (VCDoctor pricing)

Consider before choosing VCDoctor:

  • The per-consultation fee on Starter can outweigh the low setup cost as volume grows, so model a year of visits before choosing a tier.
  • On Starter and Growth, your mobile app is published under VCDoctor’s app store account. Own-server hosting and an app under your own name need the quoted Complete tier.
  • Ask what’s included after purchase: updates, security patches and support.

Other Telemedicine Software to Consider

Trembit

A WebRTC video specialist founded in 2009 that builds HIPAA-compliant video visits as an embedded SDK, a standalone branded platform, or a reseller deployment and hands you the source code. It’s a better fit for teams that want to own a custom video layer than for clinics that want a finished product; it says plainly that it doesn’t build EHRs, e-prescribing or billing. (Trembit)

Zoom for Healthcare

Many practices already use Zoom, and its healthcare plans add a BAA to a video tool staff already know. The Zoom for Healthcare bundle runs from Essentials at $24 per user a month ($20.50 billed annually) to Complete at $54 ($49.50), with online booking, a business phone system and, on higher tiers, patient texting with intake links. Clinical Notes, Zoom’s AI scribe, is a separate product from $79 per user a month billed annually, and native Epic integration costs extra. (Zoom for Healthcare pricing, Zoom Clinical Notes)

It suits practices that want familiar video visits and phone from one vendor. It’s a communication suite rather than a telehealth platform, though: patients see Zoom’s interface, not your brand, and intake, documentation and clinical workflows depend on add-ons and integrations. For a side-by-side with Q-Consultation, see QuickBlox vs Zoom for Healthcare.

 


Which Telemedicine Software Is Right for Your Practice?

If you are… Start by looking at
A solo clinician who needs video visits this week Doxy.me or VSee free plans
A therapy practice that wants notes, billing, and telehealth in one system SimplePractice
A virtual-first nutrition or wellness practice Healthie
A multi-site clinic or health system that wants patients to see its own brand, not a vendor’s Q-Consultation, Healee, or VSee Enterprise
An organization with strict data-residency or on-premises requirements Q-Consultation (Enterprise) or VCDoctor’s own-server tier
A practice that wants AI agents to run intake and routine workflows, with handover to clinicians Q-Consultation with the QuickBlox AI Agent
A digital health company building telemedicine into its own product Q-Consultation, extended with QuickBlox SDKs
A clinic in the EU or UK Curoflow

How to Compare Telemedicine Software

The platforms on this page differ most in four ways:

  • how deeply you can brand them
  • where your data can be hosted
  • whether AI stops at notes or runs workflows
  • how pricing scales (per provider, per staff member, one-time, or quoted)

Settle those four first, and most shortlists shrink quickly.

For a full vendor evaluation, covering workflow fit, compliance coverage, integration, reliability, AI oversight, data ownership, and costs at scale, use our Telehealth Platform Evaluation Checklist.


How Much Does Telemedicine Software Cost?

Telemedicine software costs anywhere from free to a quoted enterprise contract. The biggest driver is which type you buy.

Type Typical published pricing (Oct 2026)
Ready-to-use video tools Free plans; paid tiers $29–49 per provider a month; Enterprise quoted
Practice suites with telehealth $19–149 a month base, plus $50–74 per added clinician; AI notes extra
Branded, configurable platforms From €39 per staff member a month plus modules (Curoflow), from $1,500 one-time plus a per-consultation fee (VCDoctor), or quoted (Q-Consultation, Healee, VSee Enterprise)

Watch for costs that sit outside the headline price: setup fees, per-clinician add-ons, AI features sold separately, the plan tier that includes a BAA, and integration work. For a fuller breakdown of branded platform costs, see How Much Does White-Label Telehealth Cost?


Telemedicine Software vs Clinical Telehealth Infrastructure

If you search for telehealth platforms today, many results are clinical infrastructure providers. They supply licensed clinicians, e-prescribing, pharmacy fulfillment, and the legal structure for direct-to-consumer brands such as weight-loss or hormone clinics. That’s a different purchase: you’re buying a care network, and the software comes with it.

Every platform on this page assumes the opposite: you already have clinicians and need the software to deliver care under your own processes. If you need clinicians too, compare clinical infrastructure providers separately.

For how a software platform compares with a clinical infrastructure provider, see QuickBlox vs OpenLoop.


Where QuickBlox Q-Consultation Fits

Q-Consultation is for organizations that have outgrown a simple video tool but don’t want to build a telemedicine platform from scratch. In our experience, the deciding questions are usually ownership ones: whose brand the patient sees, where the data is hosted, and whether the platform can grow with the product you’re building. That’s where Q-Consultation is strongest: your branding; AI built into the clinician’s workflow, from documentation, Answer Assist and translation to AI agents that handle intake and hand over to staff; and hosting choices up to private cloud and on-premises on Enterprise.

If you need a free video tool for a solo practice, Doxy.me or VSee will serve you better. If you want telehealth inside your practice management system, look at SimplePractice or Healthie.

Explore QuickBlox Q-Consultation


 

Common Questions About Telemedicine Software

What is the best telemedicine software?

There isn't one best option for every practice. Doxy.me and VSee are the strongest low-cost video tools, SimplePractice and Healthie lead for practices that want an all-in-one system, and Q-Consultation, Healee and Curoflow suit organizations that need their own branded platform.

What is the best telemedicine software for a small practice?

Most small practices start with a ready-to-use tool such as Doxy.me or VSee, both of which have free plans and paid tiers from $29 per provider a month. If you also want scheduling, notes and billing, a practice suite such as SimplePractice or Healthie may cost less than running separate tools.

Is there free telemedicine software?

Yes. Doxy.me and VSee both offer free plans with a BAA. Free plans cover basic video visits; branding, group calls, integrations, and AI features are on paid tiers.

What are the best telemedicine apps for doctors?

For doctors who want an app their patients can download under the practice's own name, branded platforms such as Q-Consultation, Healee, and Curoflow provide patient-facing apps. Healthie and SimplePractice offer apps under their own brands, and Doxy.me runs in the browser with no download.

Which telemedicine software is HIPAA compliant?

HIPAA compliance depends on how you use a platform, but you need a vendor that signs a BAA. Doxy.me and VSee offer a BAA on every plan, and Q-Consultation, SimplePractice and Healthie make one available. Curoflow's site doesn't mention HIPAA, so US buyers should confirm with the vendor.

Is telehealth software the same as telemedicine software?

In buying terms, mostly yes: both describe software for remote clinical care. Telehealth is the broader term and can include non-clinical services.

When should a clinic choose a branded telemedicine platform?

When patients should see your brand rather than a vendor's, when you need workflows a standard tool can't support, or when you have hosting or integration requirements. Those are the cases where a white-label platform earns its higher setup effort.