vGroups

Everyday sharing, learning and collaboration.

What are vGroups?

Away from the typical social media channels (where many of the users are patients), vGroups is a super-flexible collaboration module that’s purpose-built for the needs of healthcare professionals and product companies. It’s built using our core chat engine, on top of which we have layered a range of features including, for example, chat threads and alternative participation rights to a range of user types within a given vGroup. 

The dominance of the large social media platforms is a growing topic of concern across industries, with Meta’s dominance of social media (via Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) being the most notable example. 

In Healthcare, this issue is particularly pertinent, where the use of X/Twitter or LinkedIn as a medium for sharing and discussing clinical cases is becoming an increasing concern with respect to PHI.  

With vGroups, you can build and shape the future structure of your clinical area(s), where a growing community can coalesce around a platform designed specifically around the unique needs of healthcare.

vGroups isn’t a “free for all” social media community. It’s a collaboration environment purpose-built for healthcare professionals.

Use Cases

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    KOL-led discussions

    Clinicians are running vGroups to advise and share challenging cases and reimbursement knowledge with other users from across the country.

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    Company-led vGroups

    Companies invite their existing and target customers, and maintain a dialogue (via open questions or polls, product usage tips and tricks). An effective way to drive sales conversions and utilization.

  • Journal Clubs

    Publications, typically in partnership with a sponsoring product company, are using vGroups to discuss research articles. Members join and discuss the findings with authors, providing a backstage-like experience.

  • Clinical Team Management

    Clinical teams of any size (from small offices to larger service providers) can initiate any amount of vGroups on any topic, so that they can discuss clinical cases in a platform that sits apart from consumer chat apps.

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    vGroups as a Conference App

    vGroups has already proven to be useful as a super-simple (and free) conference app, having successfully been used for a handful of conferences in the wound care market.

Company-led vGroups generate new leads and increase product utilization.

How it works

  • vGroups can be either public of private (invite only)

  • They are super simple to create and share

  • Different users can be assigned a series of user-defined roles, with differing rights to inviting and removing members, pinning resources, sending messages, and seeing other members.

  • Given the flexibility and security of these featured, associations and service providers are looking to use vGroups as a way to interact internally.