Comparison

eScription One vs PowerChart Touch

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

eScription One

This app streamlines clinical documentation for EMR systems, allowing healthcare providers to dictate and manage patient records efficiently. It integrates with EMRs, automates data entry, and improves workflow for better patient care and compliance.

Highlights
  • Dictate and manage EMR documentation
  • Real-time schedule feed
  • Personalized dictation templates
  • Review and edit transcribed content
  • Automatic EMR integration
  • Background file uploads
  • Customizable workflow settings
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eScription One allows authorized clinicians to create and manage high quality documentation for an EMR with minimal time and effort. Clinicians dictate the narrative and keep pace with busy patient loads without compromising time with patients, revenue potential or length of workday. Meanwhile, timely, complete, structured data in the EMR reduces claim rejections, decreases time to bill and enhances compliance. A real-time schedule feed serves as a daily work list while access to patient demographics and history informs dictations. System-generated dictation templates – personalized by each clinician – streamline document creation by requiring only exceptions be dictated. Transcribed content is easily reviewed, edited and signed. Upon completion, uploaded files are automatically integrated into the EMR, faxed, or printed. REQUIREMENTS: * Internet access through Wifi or phone service provider is required. WiFi connection is strongly recommended when uploading dictations. * An account is required to use this application. FEATURES AND BENEFITS: * Manage the documentation task with less time and effort. Clinicians organize documentation tasks across multiple devices by viewing all appointments with dictation status or only appointments still requiring dictation. A list of returned transcriptions allows clinicians to advance quickly through the review and authentication process. * Improve documentation quality. Save time and remove risk when patient data, demographics and appointment location are automatically linked to the voice file and available for easy reference while dictating. * Customize workflow to meet clinic needs. Flexible application settings easily accommodate the unique, complex workflow requirements of specialty practices. * Delegate transcription and QA to support staff. Completed dictations upload in the background and are automatically routed to a professional medical transcriptionist to produce a typed report that is automatically returned for review. * Increase clinician productivity and satisfaction. A library of templates—customizable for each clinician—automatically populates common content as editable text, speeding dictation. * Speed documentation turnaround. Real-time file upload, download and routing ensures prompt dictation, transcription, editing, authentication and accessibility in the EMR. * Populate the EMR automatically. Sophisticated integration generates structured data automatically placed in the EMR, improving EMR usability and boosting adoption and ROI. * Enhance the patient experience By completing documentation on mobile devices, providers are free to engage with patients rather than computer screens during exams. * Control documentation costs All-inclusive solution components require no server hardware or infrastructure, eliminating all upfront fees. Unlimited client support, updates and maintenance included at no additional cost. WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING: “When we introduced our physicians to Emdat Mobile, all of them were amazed by how easy it made their dictation and improved their workflow; and they wanted it right away.” — William Whelehan, Purchasing Director, Illinois Bone & Joint Institute

About

PowerChart Touch

This app enables healthcare providers to manage patient workflows on mobile devices. It offers secure access to patient charts, scheduling, order placement, and prescription management, facilitating efficient care delivery both inside and outside the facility.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

eScription One3 screens
PowerChart Touch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: eScription One at 3.4 against PowerChart Touch's 2.2. eScription One also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 9%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). PowerChart Touch's advantage is ratings volume (204 vs 5). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

eScription One holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PowerChart Touch has 204 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of eScription One's written reviews are positive against 9% of PowerChart Touch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eScription One ships an update every 3 weeks, PowerChart Touch every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
eScription One versus PowerChart Touch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereScription OnePowerChart Touch
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better2.2 (204 ratings)
Positive reviews23.3% of reviews — better8.6% of reviews
Number of ratings5204 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB40 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDeliverHealth Solutions LLCCerner Corporation

Customer experience

eScription One

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive23.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative73.3%

PowerChart Touch

All ratings204 ratings
Positive22.5%
Neutral10.8%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive8.6%
Neutral11.4%
Negative80.0%

Bugs and requests

eScription One

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

PowerChart Touch

Reported bugs

167 issues
  • Crashes often
  • Always asking to sign in
  • Difficult to sign in
  • Getting worse
  • Pain in the neck
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  • 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

Requested features

31 requests
  • 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
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  • 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

In-app purchases

None

eScription One

No in-app purchases

None

PowerChart Touch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is eScription One free?
eScription One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PowerChart Touch free?
PowerChart Touch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, eScription One or PowerChart Touch?
eScription One is rated higher. eScription One averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while PowerChart Touch averages 2.2 from 204 ratings.
Do eScription One or PowerChart Touch have ads?
Neither eScription One nor PowerChart Touch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eScription One or PowerChart Touch?
eScription One ships an update every 3 weeks, and PowerChart Touch every 6 weeks. Most recently, eScription One was updated on September 26, 2026 and PowerChart Touch on September 22, 2026.

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