# PowerChart Touch

> Mobile EHR access for healthcare providers to manage patient workflows and records. (iPhone/iPad app by Cerner Corporation.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/powerchart-touch/id580575898 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cerner Corporation](https://appshunter.io/developer/391140243)
- Category: Medical
- Price: Free
- Rating: 2.20/5 from 204 App Store ratings · 70 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 40 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), European Portuguese, European Spanish, Swedish
- Released: 2013-04-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-11
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/powerchart-touch/id580575898/reviews.md

## What is PowerChart Touch?

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.

## Key features

- Review schedule and patient lists
- Access patient charts and demographic information
- Manage notes, allergies, problems, and histories
- Review clinical results and radiology reports
- Place orders and prescribe/refill medications
- Secure remote EHR access

## What do users think of PowerChart Touch?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 👍 Great functionality
- 🚀 Efficient workflows
- 👍 Ability to order
- 👍 Increased efficiency
- 👍 Crucial for patient success
- 👍 Minimizing wait times
- 👍 Good for quick questions
- 👍 Finds patients easily
- 👍 Voice recognition stellar
- 👍 Helpful for phone calls
- 👍 Great for tracking labs

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashing often
- 🐛 Always asking to sign in
- 🐛 Very difficult to sign in
- 🐛 Getting worse
- 🐛 Pain in the neck
- 🐛 Clunky
- 🐛 Difficult to document
- 🐛 Not even functional
- 🐛 Very poorly made
- 🐛 Requires sign in twice
- 🐛 Not letting me log in
- 🐛 Absolutely terrible
- 🐛 Crashes in the middle of notes
- 🐛 Saves nothing
- 🐛 Useless
- 🐛 Embarrassing
- 🐛 Not useful for surgeons
- 🐛 Incomplete
- 🐛 Repeatedly gives system error
- 🐛 Freezes
- 🐛 Horrible
- 🐛 Confused about Bluetooth call
- 🐛 Chews through battery
- 🐛 Frustrating in car
- 🐛 Missing micro view
- 🐛 Limited ordering ability
- 🐛 Can only cancel fluids
- 🐛 Not faster overall
- 🐛 Essentially useless
- 🐛 Only works for some specialties
- 🐛 No OB or prenatal
- 🐛 Won't bring up pdfs
- 🐛 Can't pull up lists
- 🐛 Almost good
- 🐛 Clunky
- 🐛 No better than Instanote
- 🐛 Cannot function as stand alone
- 🐛 Sign-in again and again
- 🐛 Freezes up completely
- 🐛 Cannot even re-download
- 🐛 Years behind Epic’s Haiku
- 🐛 Pretty useless for inpatient
- 🐛 Terrible app
- 🐛 Avoid if you can
- 🐛 Login/logoff five times
- 🐛 Infrequent Dragon integration
- 🐛 Zero consistency
- 🐛 Terrible product technical support
- 🐛 Frequent unexplained downtime
- 🐛 Surprise updates render unusable
- 🐛 Horrible idea
- 🐛 Cutting out crucial functionality
- 🐛 Always freezes up
- 🐛 Need to restart phone
- 🐛 Freezes many times
- 🐛 Requiring phone restart
- 🐛 Crashes all the time
- 🐛 Biggest problem Cerner’s emr has
- 🐛 Inability to understand other languages
- 🐛 Will not let me into the app
- 🐛 Drains my battery
- 🐛 Keeps crashing
- 🐛 No tracking board views
- 🐛 No micro results
- 🐛 No image viewing
- 🐛 Horrible user interface
- 🐛 Lacks basic features
- 🐛 Ordering medications missing
- 🐛 Glaring feature disparities
- 🐛 Long-standing deficiencies
- 🐛 Slow to fix issues
- 🐛 Unhelpful
- 🐛 Very stressful
- 🐛 Worse than old version
- 🐛 Adds to stress
- 🐛 Wastes time
- 🐛 Freezing nonstop
- 🐛 Constantly reinstall/restart
- 🐛 Miserable
- 🐛 Frequent shut downs
- 🐛 Microphones not working
- 🐛 Slow to upload
- 🐛 Fundamentally lousy
- 🐛 Stalls out
- 🐛 Requires delete/reload
- 🐛 Upgrade doesn’t work
- 🐛 Frozen, won’t start
- 🐛 Days longer playing with app
- 🐛 Updated now not working
- 🐛 Loop of log in/log out
- 🐛 Loss of Physician Handoff
- 🐛 Less intuitive UI
- 🐛 Requires more steps to login
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Slow
- 🐛 Almost useless
- 🐛 Poor upgrade
- 🐛 Even more disappointing than desktop
- 🐛 Not intuitive
- 🐛 Needs to cater better for Australian sites
- 🐛 No way to create patient list
- 🐛 Schedule viewing: open slots
- 🐛 Last update broke app
- 🐛 Errors with processing orders
- 🐛 Unusable
- 🐛 Missing ability to add providers
- 🐛 App does not open
- 🐛 Third rate app
- 🐛 Clicks don’t work
- 🐛 Power plans ill conceived
- 🐛 Throw your phone in agony
- 🐛 Improvement falls short
- 🐛 Poor execution
- 🐛 Archaic
- 🐛 Horrific update
- 🐛 Deleted ability to lookup schedules
- 🐛 Utterly ridiculous
- 🐛 Major stability issues
- 🐛 Lost work
- 🐛 Crashes at least once every note
- 🐛 Search removed
- 🐛 Cannot find patient
- 🐛 Won’t let me sign in
- 🐛 Disaster
- 🐛 No customer service response
- 🐛 Loss of flowsheets
- 🐛 Viewing current labs first
- 🐛 Clutter of old labs
- 🐛 Placing orders slower
- 🐛 Verification of patient physician relationship slow
- 🐛 Microbiology not available
- 🐛 Charge after discharge not accessible
- 🐛 Medication history dosing not available
- 🐛 Please fix the dictation
- 🐛 Does not support new iPhones
- 🐛 Observation Status Patients do not Show
- 🐛 New update has issues
- 🐛 Becoming more useful, still slow
- 🐛 Slow loading speeds
- 🐛 Pretty useless
- 🐛 No microbiology
- 🐛 Clunky
- 🐛 Poor UI
- 🐛 Rounding with this is limited
- 🐛 Not intuitive to place/edit orders
- 🐛 Slow migrating between patients/lists
- 🐛 Discharged patients disappear
- 🐛 Need MAR tab
- 🐛 Domon face recognition
- 🐛 No reason for re-login
- 🐛 Unable to dictate certain histories
- 🐛 Practically worthless
- 🐛 Getting worse
- 🐛 Logs out after 10 minutes
- 🐛 Lab results display useless
- 🐛 Goes back to patient homepage
- 🐛 Still on previous day
- 🐛 Clunky
- 🐛 Unnecessary haptic steps
- 🐛 Real estate taken by useless options
- 🐛 Old version preferred
- 🐛 Lost trend review for data
- 🐛 Vitals not in trend view
- 🐛 Labs not in trend view
- 🐛 Data not timely/accurately updated
- 🐛 Trending capabilities absent
- 🐛 Dictation not used anymore

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes often
- Always asking to sign in
- Difficult to sign in
- Getting worse
- Pain in the neck
- Clunky
- Difficult to document
- Not even functional
- Very poorly made
- Requires sign in twice
- Not letting me log in
- Absolutely terrible
- Crashes in the middle of notes
- Saves nothing
- Useless
- Embarrassing
- Not useful for surgeons
- Incomplete
- Repeatedly gives system error
- Freezes
- Horrible
- Confused about Bluetooth call
- Chews through battery
- Frustrating in car
- Missing micro view
- Limited ordering ability
- Can only cancel fluids
- Not faster overall
- Essentially useless
- Only works for some specialties
- No OB or prenatal
- Won't bring up pdfs
- Can't pull up lists
- Almost good
- Clunky
- No better than Instanote
- Cannot function as stand alone
- Sign-in again and again
- Freezes up completely
- Cannot even re-download
- Years behind Epic’s Haiku
- Pretty useless for inpatient
- Terrible app
- Avoid if you can
- Login/logoff five times
- Infrequent Dragon integration
- Zero consistency
- Terrible product technical support
- Frequent unexplained downtime
- Surprise updates render unusable
- Horrible idea
- Cutting out crucial functionality
- Always freezes up
- Need to restart phone
- Freezes many times
- Requiring phone restart
- Crashes all the time
- Biggest problem Cerner’s emr has
- Inability to understand other languages
- Will not let me into the app
- Drains my battery
- Keeps crashing
- No tracking board views
- No micro results
- No image viewing
- Horrible user interface
- Lacks basic features
- Ordering medications missing
- Glaring feature disparities
- Long-standing deficiencies
- Slow to fix issues
- Unhelpful
- Very stressful
- Worse than old version
- Adds to stress
- Wastes time
- Freezing nonstop
- Constantly reinstall/restart
- Miserable
- Frequent shut downs
- Microphones not working
- Slow to upload
- Fundamentally lousy
- Stalls out
- Requires delete/reload
- Upgrade doesn’t work
- Frozen, won’t start
- Days longer playing with app
- Updated now not working
- Loop of log in/log out
- Loss of Physician Handoff
- Less intuitive UI
- Requires more steps to login
- Buggy
- Slow
- Almost useless
- Poor upgrade
- Even more disappointing than desktop
- Not intuitive
- Needs to cater better for Australian sites
- No way to create patient list
- Schedule viewing: open slots
- Last update broke app
- Errors with processing orders
- Unusable
- Missing ability to add providers
- App does not open
- Third rate app
- Clicks don’t work
- Power plans ill conceived
- Throw your phone in agony
- Improvement falls short
- Poor execution
- Archaic
- Horrific update
- Deleted ability to lookup schedules
- Utterly ridiculous
- Major stability issues
- Lost work
- Crashes at least once every note
- Search removed
- Cannot find patient
- Won’t let me sign in
- Disaster
- No customer service response
- Loss of flowsheets
- Viewing current labs first
- Clutter of old labs
- Placing orders slower
- Verification of patient physician relationship slow
- Microbiology not available
- Charge after discharge not accessible
- Medication history dosing not available
- Please fix the dictation
- Does not support new iPhones
- Observation Status Patients do not Show
- New update has issues
- Becoming more useful, still slow
- Slow loading speeds
- Pretty useless
- No microbiology
- Clunky
- Poor UI
- Rounding with this is limited
- Not intuitive to place/edit orders
- Slow migrating between patients/lists
- Discharged patients disappear
- Need MAR tab
- Domon face recognition
- No reason for re-login
- Unable to dictate certain histories
- Practically worthless
- Getting worse
- Logs out after 10 minutes
- Lab results display useless
- Goes back to patient homepage
- Still on previous day
- Clunky
- Unnecessary haptic steps
- Real estate taken by useless options
- Old version preferred
- Lost trend review for data
- Vitals not in trend view
- Labs not in trend view
- Data not timely/accurately updated
- Trending capabilities absent
- Dictation not used anymore

**Most requested features**

- Add ability to add media from photo gallery/files
- Add medicine reconciliation capacity
- Add ability to open radiographs and images
- Include microbiology section
- Show Operating Lists
- Show blood gas values
- Add Micro view
- Increased ordering ability (fluids, power plans)
- Make app faster
- Add OB or prenatal functionality
- Bring up PDFs
- Pull up lists from care teams
- Add lab notifications
- Add secure chat
- Add PowerPlans functionality
- Add ability to add providers in ‘Resource Selection’
- Bring back old functionality for provider schedules
- Ability to create patient lists
- Show available slots on schedule
- View other schedules
- Support new iPhones borders and screen
- Show Observation Status Patients
- Add Subjective, ROS, Assessment for dictation
- Improve slow loading speeds
- Allow viewing discharged patients
- Add MAR tab
- Add thumb/face recognition for login
- Dictate social history, family history, past medical history
- Restore trending graphs and detailed views of vitals and labs
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard

## Recent user reviews (10 of 70)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/powerchart-touch/id580575898/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Working. But crashing

*2025-12-29*

I do a lot of work on my iPad. It’s crashing often on. Always asking me to sign in. Very difficult even look at the patient in their charts. Needs real help from the developers. It needs a resuscitation. Getting worse now. Please make it better. Please. it’s still unable to sign in difficult to sign in. Do you guys need to fix it because it’s a great opportunity.

### 1/5 — Garbage. Very bad for patient care.

*2025-10-09, version 9.8.0*

Pain in the neck. Better to put orders from a computer.

### 1/5 — Worst electronic health record app

*2025-06-22*

Clunky. To log in you have to click through nearly 10 screens. Can’t see attachments in patient records. Difficult to document. Would recommend epic.

### 5/5 — Great Functionality, Amazing Tool

*2025-05-29*

This application has been super efficient in my day to day workflows and the ability to order and increase my level of efficiency with patient care has been crucial to creating patient success and minimizing wait times.

### 4/5 — Not bad

*2025-03-31, version 9.7.0*

Media needs to be able to be added from photo gallery and files not just camara.

### 2/5 — Not THE worst but certainly not top notch

*2025-02-19*

I’ve used varying EMRs and their available apps and this ranks among the worst. It is nowhere in contention for best in class. 
For starters it takes 5 taps just to log into the app after starting it before you are able to do anything, whether that be viewing a patient list or reviewing a chart if already open. 
And then not all patient data is available. I understand limiting certain things for patients but with a doctor?
Unfortunately I can’t persuade our organization to switch to another EMR that is a little more, shall we say, epic.

### 1/5 — Not even functional

*2024-09-17, version 9.7.0*

App already very poorly made, now with new update requires you to sign in TWICE with a captcha and isn’t letting me log in. We don’t have a choice but to use the app but geez at least make it work.

### 1/5 — Needs Medicine Reconciliation!!!

*2024-08-27*

To review a note, check a lab, or place a quick order, this app is OK. However, the addition of medicine reconciliation capacity would vault this app into incredibly useful. For providers with high volume clinics, medical reconciliation compromises a tremendous amount of time and mouse clicks. To be able to do this easily on the go would be a game changer for  efficiency. And would be a much more realistic utilization, than attempting to document within the app, especially as AI becomes more of an assistant for documentation.

### 2/5 — Still needs improvements

*2024-07-09*

Great app but need to add ability to open radiographs and images within app.

### 1/5 — And I thought Powerchart desktop was bad..

*2024-06-14, version 9.6.0*

Absolutely terrible app. Crashes in the middle of notes and orders frequently and saves nothing so you have to start over. Can’t view/edit “shared HPI”, can’t change “myexperience” view to review referrals. Useless.

## Frequently asked questions about PowerChart Touch

### What does PowerChart Touch do?

PowerChart Touch provides healthcare providers with mobile access to their electronic health records (EHR). It supports various clinical workflows, including reviewing patient schedules, charts, and results, as well as managing orders and prescriptions.

### What are the key features of PowerChart Touch?

Key features include reviewing patient schedules and charts, accessing physician handoff tools, managing notes, allergies, and problems, reviewing clinical results, placing orders, and prescribing/refilling medications with formulary support. It also offers secure remote access to the EHR.

### Is PowerChart Touch free to use?

The app itself is free to download. However, it requires your organization to have a valid license for PowerChart Touch and be on a specific release version (2012.01 or higher). Access is dependent on your organization's IT department or Cerner representative.

### What devices is PowerChart Touch compatible with?

PowerChart Touch is designed for use on iPad® and iPhone® devices. Compatibility is also dependent on your organization's specific EHR system requirements and licensing.

### Who is PowerChart Touch intended for?

This application is intended for healthcare providers, such as physicians, who need to manage patient workflows and access patient information securely while on the go or away from their primary workstation.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 9.9.0 — 2026-07-29

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

### 9.8.0 — 2025-08-31

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

### 9.7.0 — 2024-08-07

PowerChart Touch requires iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or newer.
This release contains enhancements to support the latest OS releases.
Miscellaneous fixes and stability improvements
Platform level components consumed:

OrionAppKit - 8.1.0
Existing uCern users may view a complete list of changes for this release by accessing the Release Notes page available via the Solution Documentation section on uCern.

### 9.6.0 — 2024-01-03

• PowerChart Touch requires iOS or iPadOS 15.4 or newer.
• This release contains enhancements to support the latest OS releases.

### 9.4.0 — 2022-02-15

Minor dependencies updates.

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