Comparison

PowerChart Touch vs Epoch

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

Epoch

Features
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Epoch is a simple, private seizure diary from Epilepsy Network Australia, built with Synthesis Neurology. Record seizures in seconds, track your medications, and generate a clear PDF report to share with your doctor or neurologist — including during home video-EEG (VEEG) monitoring, where Epoch replaces the paper diary. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Everything you enter is stored only on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is required. You decide if and when to share a report. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Log seizures with type, duration, severity, triggers, warning (aura), and notes - Choose the seizure types that apply to you, with plain-language explanations - Start a VEEG monitoring session — events during the session are tagged automatically - Track medications with dose, unit, and times of day, and see recorded adherence - Generate a professional PDF for your neurologist, with a colour-coded seizure timeline - Learn about seizure types in clear, everyday language Epoch is a patient-recorded diary. It does not provide diagnosis or treatment advice. In an emergency, call 000.

Screenshots

PowerChart Touch4 screens
Epoch4 screens

Verdict

The call

PowerChart Touch and Epoch are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PowerChart Touch versus Epoch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerChart TouchEpoch
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (207 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews8.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings207 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB32 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCerner CorporationEpilepsy Network Pty Ltd

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
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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

Epoch

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PowerChart Touch

No in-app purchases

None

Epoch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PowerChart Touch free?
PowerChart Touch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Epoch free?
Epoch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PowerChart Touch or Epoch have ads?
Neither PowerChart Touch nor Epoch shows ads.

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