A Review on Virtual Hospital Concept and its Applications

Virtual hospital is an informational-interactive system that seeks to ensure that the benefits of modern medicine are available to everyone. The aim of this non-systematic narrative study was to review virtual hospital concept and its applications. Information collecting was conducted by literature review and visiting virtual hospital's websites.Most of the already existing articles were about virtual hospitals modeling and its application in patient's management. Present data show that virtual hospital's websites had some role in education, decreasing hospital infection rate, improving patient outcome, etc.In general, virtual hospitals have both many advantages and disadvantages. As a result, all the outcomes should be considered when modeling this new technology.