Comparison

PowerChart Touch vs New Innovations

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

Head to head
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.

About

New Innovations

This app helps medical residents, fellows, and students track work hours, log procedures, and manage evaluations on the go. It offers a secure login and QR code scanning for attendance, streamlining clinical learning tasks.

Highlights
  • Work Hours Tracking
  • Procedure Logging
  • Procedure Privileges Monitoring
  • On-demand Evaluations
  • Direct Observation Assessments
  • QR Code Scanner for Attendance
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The New Innovations mobile app is designed for graduate medical education (GME) Residents and Fellows, and undergraduate medical education (UME) students in today’s clinical learning environment. GME users can utilize Work Hours, Procedure Privileges, Procedure Logging, Evaluations and a QR code scanner for conference attendance tracking. UME users can also access Evaluations and the QR code scanner with more yet to come. Free from the constraint of returning to a desk or workstation, trainees can now engage with the key features of the New Innovations suite anywhere! Please Note: Most features of New Innovations are accessible and compatible with current mobile web browsers. The app delivers a secure, persistent log-in that requires users to sign in once, and then only again after 30 days of inactivity. All users must have a valid New Innovations log-in. GME Work Hours Approve hours logged manually or previously scheduled Add or edit hours of current day or previous 13 days View scheduled hours up to two days in the future Select “did not work” as an option if missed scheduled hours Include date, time and location See violation details that are not in compliance with ACGME rules Procedure Privileges Monitor progress towards procedure targets within your home department View privileges achieved / completed for other departments Check procedures listed alphabetically Verify level of supervision required to conduct a procedure Procedure Logger Select appropriate procedure at the correct location Provide information required by the program Submit to observer for approval Review list of logged procedures and see confirmation status Evaluations Available for residents, fellows and faculty Complete and request on-demand evaluations Direct Observation Assessments Conduct on-the-spot assessments based on published EPAs. Avoid supervisor log-in and receive a summary or send a request to supervisors to complete. QR Code Scanner Access within the app Use to scan QR codes for conference attendance tracking UME Evaluations Available for students and faculty Complete and request on-demand evaluations QR Code Scanner Access within the app Use to scan QR codes for conference attendance tracking

Screenshots

PowerChart Touch4 screens
New Innovations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PowerChart Touch at 2.2 against New Innovations's 1.9. New Innovations's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

PowerChart Touch holds the better App Store score, 2.2 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 207 and 117 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of PowerChart Touch's written reviews are positive against 4% of New Innovations's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PowerChart Touch ships an update every 6 weeks, New Innovations every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PowerChart Touch versus New Innovations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerChart TouchNew Innovations
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (207 ratings) — better1.9 (117 ratings)
Positive reviews8.6% of reviews — better3.6% of reviews
Number of ratings207 — better117
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB74 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperCerner CorporationNew Innovations, Inc.

Customer experience

PowerChart Touch

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

New Innovations

All ratings106 ratings
Positive15.1%
Neutral10.4%
Negative74.5%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive3.6%
Neutral16.1%
Negative80.4%

User reviews

PowerChart Touch

From 207 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great functionality
  • 🚀 Efficient workflows
  • 👍 Ability to order
  • 👍 Increased efficiency
  • 👍 Crucial for patient success

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashing often
  • 🐛 Always asking to sign in
  • 🐛 Very difficult to sign in
  • 🐛 Getting worse
  • 🐛 Pain in the neck

New Innovations

From 117 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Appreciated for logging procedures
  • 👍 Handy for duty hours
  • 👍 QR scanner functionality

Room to improve

  • 👎 Overly complicated hour logging
  • 👎 Not mobile-optimized
  • 👎 Cumbersome UI
  • 👎 Unstable and buggy
  • 👎 Poor date handling

Bugs and requests

PowerChart Touch

Reported bugs

167 issues
  • Crashes often
  • Always asking to sign in
  • Difficult to sign in
  • Getting worse
  • Pain in the neck
Show 162 more
  • 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

New Innovations

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Dates recorded incorrectly (day prior)
  • Duplicate procedure logs after update
  • App unstable, needs updates
  • “Select Activity” not populating or accepting input
  • QR code scanning doesn't work
Show 10 more
  • App randomly stopped working
  • Keyboard covers text box when typing comments
  • No “done” or “next” option to hide keyboard
  • Institution name invalid/not recognized during login
  • “Select activity” and “location” tabs are blank
  • App crashes during evaluations section
  • Duties will not give any options for logging hours
  • Evaluations section shows gobbledygook and doesn't fit box
  • Activity section remains blank, cannot log hours
  • Dark Mode makes app unreadable

Requested features

32 requests
  • Add clock in/out function
  • Optimize for iPad landscape
  • Add iPad version
  • Default time entry for hours
  • Block entry for multiple days
Show 27 more
  • Calendar view for logging
  • Link calendar to app
  • Ability to type hours instead of scroll
  • Bulk log hours (week/month view)
  • View completed evaluations
  • View residents' work schedule
  • Add notification reminders
  • Show procedure progress (x/y needed)
  • Log procedures directly from app
  • Complete and sign evaluations via app
  • Scan QR codes for attendance
  • Search or favorite institutions
  • Log hours further back in the past
  • Improve hour logging detail and simplification
  • Add hour violation checks and weekly totals
  • Add 4-week average for hour compliance
  • Add administrative utilities for super users
  • Conferencing functionality (QR display, add people, adjust time)
  • Report a problem during conference feature
  • Expand mobile page functionality
  • Keep location or rotation info for logging
  • Default times of day for logging
  • Log in the future
  • Log Monday's hours on Thursday
  • Log procedures for specialty
  • Log hours through the app
  • Dark mode correction

In-app purchases

None

PowerChart Touch

No in-app purchases

None

New Innovations

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PowerChart Touch free?
PowerChart Touch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is New Innovations free?
New Innovations is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PowerChart Touch or New Innovations?
PowerChart Touch is rated higher. PowerChart Touch averages 2.2 out of 5 from 207 ratings, while New Innovations averages 1.9 from 117 ratings.
Do PowerChart Touch or New Innovations have ads?
Neither PowerChart Touch nor New Innovations shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PowerChart Touch or New Innovations?
PowerChart Touch ships an update every 6 weeks, and New Innovations every 5 weeks. Most recently, PowerChart Touch was updated on October 29, 2026 and New Innovations on October 24, 2026.

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