Epic Welcome vs Logical Ink 8.5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Epic Welcome
This app allows patients to complete medical intake processes digitally. Patients can respond to questionnaires and e-sign necessary documents before their appointments. The available features depend on the healthcare organization's license.
- Patient self-service options
- Respond to questionnaires
- E-sign documents
- Digital care process start
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Welcome offers patients self-service options at the start of the care process. With Welcome, patients can: · Respond to questionnaires · E-sign documents Your organization needs to license Welcome and be on Epic’s 2018 version or greater and will determine the exact feature set.
Logical Ink 8.5
This app allows healthcare organizations to capture patient data and signatures electronically, replacing paper forms. It integrates with existing systems to improve documentation, reduce errors, and streamline workflows for a better patient and staff experience.
- Electronic signature capture
- Discrete data and photo capture
- Reduces errors and improves patient safety
- Streamlined registration workflow
- Mobile and bedside care enabled
- Integrates with EMR/ECM workflows
- Intelligent and interactive forms
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Logical Ink® makes it easy for healthcare organizations to allow patients and caregivers to capture data and signatures electronically, eliminating the need for paper forms. Seamlessly compatible with any downstream system, Logical Ink helps improve documentation, decrease medical errors, and simplify processes. It leverages mobile devices, digital ink and a pen/touch-based interface to provide a simple and intuitive user experience that is as natural and unrestrictive as paper. You must be a licensed user of Logical Ink to use this app. Logical Ink customers enjoy the following benefits: • Intelligent and interactive forms for capturing electronic signature, discrete data and photos • Reduces errors and improves patient safety by eliminating paper forms and scanning • Increased staff and patient satisfaction • Reduces wait times in Registration with a more streamlined workflow • Enables mobility and bedside care • Easy-to-use, drag/drop design tool for enterprise forms management • Integrates with any EMR or ECM workflow for fewer clicks 8.5 Highlights: • Introduced the Lock control for Designer and all clients that allows only certain user groups to access signatures and other parts of forms • Windows components are certified on Windows 11 • Server is now certified on Windows Server 2022 and SQL Server 2022 • Updated the Patient Forms functionality in form selection logic to make searches easier for forms the patient completed previously • Token generation is prevented when the user reaches their max failed login attempts • Re-genrating a user's token now creates records in the Event Log • Barcodes render to the screen in the form fill window in the iPad client • Disabled controls appear in the Items Remaining list • Added a configuration setting for controlling whether the server executes a database check at startup • Updated the Active Directory search functionality to better handle multi-domain environments through the GroupLookupType server configuration setting • Updated the Proxy Service to better handle old and new Hyland libraries • Designer better responds to changes to the logging level in itsconfiguration file • Added support for the _SelectedIndex property on the Dropdown List controls • Added a confirmation dialog to the Clear button on Slider controls • JavaScript code editing experiences now have line numbers • Updated interface for Form Fill integrations with MedEx
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Logical Ink 8.5 at 5.0 against Epic Welcome's 4.3. Logical Ink 8.5 also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Epic Welcome's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Logical Ink 8.5 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Epic Welcome | Logical Ink 8.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Epic | Bottomline Technologies |
In-app purchases
Epic Welcome
No in-app purchases
Logical Ink 8.5
No in-app purchases
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