PowerChart Touch

Name: PowerChart Touch
Rating: 2.2 (199 reviews)
Author: Cerner Corporation

Medical

Free

199 Ratings
Ages

16+
Years
Category

Medical
Developer

Cerner Corporation
Language

EN
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Size

40.7
MB

PowerChart Touch for iPad® and iPhone® supports fast, easy, and smart workflows. PowerChart Touch allows a provider to complete both ambulatory and inpatient workflows, including: • Review their schedule, patient list, and patient charts • Access the Physician Handoff, a standardized approach to transfer care of a patient between providers • Review patient's demographic information • Take patient's photo • Review, create, and sign notes • Review, add, and modify allergies, problems & histories • Review clinical results, radiology reports, and pathology reports • Review all orders including medication orders • Ability to place orders • Prescribe and refill medications with formulary support, electronic prescribing and printing • Clinical checking for safe prescription writing including drug-drug and drug-allergy checking • Dictate with Nuance voice recognition PowerChart Touch also provides secure access for providers needing access to the EHR outside of the facility's walls. IMPORTANT: PowerChart Touch requires your organization to have a valid license and be on release 2012.01 or higher. If you are unsure about the availability of PowerChart Touch at your organization, please contact your IT department or your Cerner representative.

Ratings & Reviews

2.2

out of 5

199 Ratings

No microbiology, clunky, poor UI
06/01/2018

mountain_exposure
Desperately needs Microbiology interface. Who are you kidding? Microbiology data is >50% of inpatients. You cannot make a decision on many patient’s without knowing culture results, ID and sensitivities. So rounding with this in the hallway is limited. I’m quite facile with technology and figured how to use this with forced patience and perseverance. It is not intuitive to place and edit orders. Good luck those who claim to be luddites, then again you may not be trying this anyway. It’s so slow migrating from one patient to the next, and between patient lists. Last update seemed to help slow things more. Good job. Allow to see patients who have been discharged or in a list of discharged patients. That is important if you need to search to contact someone or follow up with them. Currently d/c’ed patients disappear from all lists. Need MAR tab to see what meds have been given and when. This helps deciding if you need to order that extra potassium or magnesium among other things. Feel free to reach out to me if you really want more feedback.
No microbiology, clunky, poor UI
06/01/2018

mountain_exposure

Desperately needs Microbiology interface. Who are you kidding? Microbiology data is >50% of inpatients. You cannot make a decision on many patient’s without knowing culture results, ID and sensitivities. So rounding with this in the hallway is limited. I’m quite facile with technology and figured how to use this with forced patience and perseverance. It is not intuitive to place and edit orders. Good luck those who claim to be luddites, then again you may not be trying this anyway. It’s so slow migrating from one patient to the next, and between patient lists. Last update seemed to help slow things more. Good job. Allow to see patients who have been discharged or in a list of discharged patients. That is important if you need to search to contact someone or follow up with them. Currently d/c’ed patients disappear from all lists. Need MAR tab to see what meds have been given and when. This helps deciding if you need to order that extra potassium or magnesium among other things. Feel free to reach out to me if you really want more feedback.
Old version preferred
10/19/2017

TaStreet
When the new update came we lost an important trend review for data. For example, when a lab was selected a double tap would open the details of the lab and include a graph trend of the measured value over time. This was very valuable for many types of measurements including, vitals, specific blood pressure trends, heart rates, and important lab values. Now with the update, vitals are not available in a trend view, nor labs. Labs are only listed by dates, and not easily accessed like before. Our team rounds appreciated the ease of data access and mobility throughout the hospital on our service and power touch expedited our rounding, now since the update the data is not as timely/accurately updated, and the trending capabilities are absent. Very disappointed in the updates. Please bring back the trending graphs and detailed views of vitals and labs that were available before. Dictation is spot on 100% and a time saver, but not used anymore by our team since graphing trend review was taken away.
Old version preferred
10/19/2017

TaStreet

When the new update came we lost an important trend review for data. For example, when a lab was selected a double tap would open the details of the lab and include a graph trend of the measured value over time. This was very valuable for many types of measurements including, vitals, specific blood pressure trends, heart rates, and important lab values. Now with the update, vitals are not available in a trend view, nor labs. Labs are only listed by dates, and not easily accessed like before. Our team rounds appreciated the ease of data access and mobility throughout the hospital on our service and power touch expedited our rounding, now since the update the data is not as timely/accurately updated, and the trending capabilities are absent. Very disappointed in the updates. Please bring back the trending graphs and detailed views of vitals and labs that were available before. Dictation is spot on 100% and a time saver, but not used anymore by our team since graphing trend review was taken away.
Still lacks even the most basic features
03/16/2021

Mac_User_01
This app completely lacks the ability to perform even the most basic and frequently performed functions, such as **ordering medications.**As a physician who works with two different mobile EMR apps, Cerner’s PowerChartTouch highlights glaring feature disparities that are emblematic of the long-standing deficiencies inherent to the Cerner’s parent EMR. Of note, these deficiencies are a solved problem in other EMR apps. For example, Epic’s Haiku app has supported basic functions such as ordering medications for years. It is remarkable that — despite this profound feature disparity — Cerner’s PowerChartTouch app has made no apparent progress towards integrating even the most basic features within the past 12 months.I recommend that physicians seek out alternative EMRs when possible and avoid Cerner’s languishing platform altogether given the seeming lack of active development.
Still lacks even the most basic features
03/16/2021

Mac_User_01

This app completely lacks the ability to perform even the most basic and frequently performed functions, such as **ordering medications.**As a physician who works with two different mobile EMR apps, Cerner’s PowerChartTouch highlights glaring feature disparities that are emblematic of the long-standing deficiencies inherent to the Cerner’s parent EMR. Of note, these deficiencies are a solved problem in other EMR apps. For example, Epic’s Haiku app has supported basic functions such as ordering medications for years. It is remarkable that — despite this profound feature disparity — Cerner’s PowerChartTouch app has made no apparent progress towards integrating even the most basic features within the past 12 months.I recommend that physicians seek out alternative EMRs when possible and avoid Cerner’s languishing platform altogether given the seeming lack of active development.
Terrible app, avoid if you can
11/09/2021

orthodoc05
This is the single worst piece of medical record keeping software that I have ever used (vs Epic and other homegrown EMRs). Anytime I want to dictate notes for my clinic, I usually have to login and log off of the app around five times and hope to be lucky to make a solid connection. The dragon integration is great, when it works, and unfortunately that is infrequent. There is zero consistency day-to-day in which work-around will allow me to open and use the software. Unfortunately, our clinic has bought into this Cerner ecosystem and we are far too reliant on this app. There is terrible product technical support, frequent unexplained downtime and surprise updates that tend to render the app unusable for at least several days after launch each time they come out.
Terrible app, avoid if you can
11/09/2021

orthodoc05

This is the single worst piece of medical record keeping software that I have ever used (vs Epic and other homegrown EMRs). Anytime I want to dictate notes for my clinic, I usually have to login and log off of the app around five times and hope to be lucky to make a solid connection. The dragon integration is great, when it works, and unfortunately that is infrequent. There is zero consistency day-to-day in which work-around will allow me to open and use the software. Unfortunately, our clinic has bought into this Cerner ecosystem and we are far too reliant on this app. There is terrible product technical support, frequent unexplained downtime and surprise updates that tend to render the app unusable for at least several days after launch each time they come out.

PowerChart Touch requires iOS or iPadOS 17.4 or newer. This release contains enhancements to support the latest OS releases. Miscellaneous fixes and stability improvements