Comparison

PatientTouch vs PharmAid

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

Head to head
About

PatientTouch

This mobile care orchestration solution connects frontline clinicians to patients, care teams, and EHRs in real time. It enhances safety, quality, and efficiency through features like positive patient identification, medication administration, and specimen collection workflows. The platform aims to improve patient care by streamlining processes and communication.

Highlights
  • Positive Patient Identification (PPID)
  • Medication Administration workflows
  • Specimen Collection documentation
  • Infant Care matching and safety
  • Real-time Care Interventions documentation
  • Clinically contextual communications
  • HIPAA compliant
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The PatientTouch® system is a Mobile Care Orchestration™ solution that enables you to orchestrate people, processes, and data in real time. By connecting frontline clinicians to their patients, care team, and existing EHR infrastructure, the PatientTouch system improves safety, quality, efficiency, and nursing satisfaction, while reducing costs. Ultimately, the PatientTouch system allows you to spend more time on direct patient care. The PatientTouch platform delivers Positive Patient Identification (PPID) workflows, clinically contextual communications, and configurable care interventions. With the PatientTouch system, you can leverage a single, easy to use device for: • Medication Administration—PPID barcode medication administration through intuitive workflows designed with clinical depth to ensure patient safety and adherence to the seven-rights • Specimen Collection—Enforce patient identification and care verification, document in real time, and optimize care team workflows to increase safety, accuracy, and efficiency of lab order processing and fulfillment • Infant Care—Ensure accurate mother and baby matching, safety of breast milk feedings, and accuracy of breast milk labeling • Care Interventions—View, collect, and document vital signs, I/O, hourly rounding, assessments, and clinical procedures in real-time • Communications—Facilitate care team collaboration through clinically contextual communications. • Facilitates patient assignment, alert management, and care delivery planning The PatientTouch system is fully HIPAA compliant and communicates directly to your existing HIS infrastructure via secured wireless networks. To use the PatientTouch application, your healthcare facility needs to license the PatientTouch system. The PatientTouch system includes an authorized server that is integrated with other hospital systems and the PatientTouch electronic mobile medication appliance (eMMA™) handheld. Innovated with the Apple iPod Touch® at its core, the eMMA handheld is designed for the clinical environment and meets the needs of hospital regulations. Learn more at patientsafesolutions.com

About

PharmAid

Features
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This app will help the users to get their required medicine at their doorstep. User will be able to upload their prescription through the app and receive pricing from the pharmacy. And they will be able to select from the list and order the medicine. The medicine will be delivered to their home.

Screenshots

PatientTouch4 screens
PharmAid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PatientTouch at every 2 months against PharmAid's every 5 months. PatientTouch also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PatientTouch ships an update every 2 months, PharmAid every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PatientTouch versus PharmAid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatientTouchPharmAid
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB70 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPatientSafe SolutionsPharmaid-Rx

In-app purchases

None

PatientTouch

No in-app purchases

None

PharmAid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PatientTouch free?
PatientTouch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PharmAid free?
PharmAid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PatientTouch or PharmAid have ads?
Neither PatientTouch nor PharmAid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PatientTouch or PharmAid?
PatientTouch ships an update every 2 months, and PharmAid every 5 months. Most recently, PatientTouch was updated on October 10, 2026 and PharmAid on October 3, 2026.

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