DaVita Secure Messaging vs Trial Connection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DaVita Secure Messaging
This HIPAA-compliant tool facilitates rapid communication and cross-team collaboration for healthcare professionals. It helps eliminate phone tag, organize messages by patient, and streamline care coordination among teams across different facilities.
- HIPAA-compliant messaging
- Rapid communication
- Cross-team collaboration
- Message tagging by patient
- Group messaging
- Care coordination across facilities
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DaVita’s HIPAA-compliant messaging tool supports rapid communication and cross-team collaboration. DaVita Secure Messaging is available for DaVita teammates and credentialed providers. Why use secure messaging? • Eliminate phone tag and message for faster response • Tag messages by patient to make it easy to find messages later • Keep everyone on the same page with group messaging • Coordinate care with teammates across facilities (without special access requests) • Streamline communication across teams; for example, between IKC and DKC teammates regarding mutual patients or ICHD and Home TMs when a patient is transitioning modalities Hear from Teammates • “It saves so much time to be able to send a secure message and not to be making multiple phone calls” - Registered Dietician • “[Secure messaging] is a streamlined (and HIPAA compliant) way to communicate with physicians and teammates in non-emergent situations. I highly recommend it.” – Clinical Coordinator • There should be more use from TM and physicians. [It] makes for more efficient communication. – Facility Administrator
Trial Connection
Facilitates the submission of referrals through a dedicated service. Designed to streamline the process of managing and tracking referrals for your website.
- Referral submission support
- Website integration
- Referral tracking
- Service management
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This app supports the Trial Connection service for submitting referrals on your site.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trial Connection at 5.0 against DaVita Secure Messaging's 1.9. Trial Connection also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). DaVita Secure Messaging's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trial Connection holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DaVita Secure Messaging has 51 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DaVita Secure Messaging ships an update every 11 days, Trial Connection every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DaVita Secure Messaging | Trial Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (51 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DaVita, Inc. | Trial Connection LLC |
In-app purchases
DaVita Secure Messaging
No in-app purchases
Trial Connection
No in-app purchases
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