Comparison

Cerner Message Center vs The Hub.

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

Head to head
About

Cerner Message Center

This app facilitates secure messaging workflows for physicians, allowing them to view, compose, reply, and forward messages. It also enables cosigning orders and endorsing results, providing essential EHR access outside of traditional clinic settings.

Highlights
  • View messages, reminders, consults, receipts, sent items, and trash
  • Compose, reply, and forward phone messages
  • Cosign orders
  • Endorse results
  • Secure EHR access
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PowerChart Touch Message Center for iPad and iPhone supports fast, easy and smart messaging workflows for the physician including: • Ability to view messages, reminders, consults, receipts, sent items and trash • Ability to compose, reply, and forward phone messages • Ability to cosign orders and endorse results PowerChart Touch Message Center also provides secure access for physicians needing access to the EHR outside of clinic walls. IMPORTANT: PowerChart Touch Message Center 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 Message Center at your organization, please contact your IT department or your Cerner representative.

About

The Hub.

This platform streamlines group resource and communication management for teams of any size. It offers messaging, file sharing, scheduling, and task management, all accessible from the cloud.

Highlights
  • Messaging
  • File Management
  • Resource Management
  • Contact Management
  • Schedules
  • To-Do Lists
Features
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The Hubspring platform - ‘The Hub’ - is the only tool you need to manage all your group’s resources and communications. The Hub is easy to create, use, manage and deploy, whether your team is 20 or 20,000 users. Out of the box, at your fingertips, The Hub provides state of the art messaging, file management, resource management, contact management, access to files, images, schedules, forums, To-Do lists…and much more…all delivered fresh from the cloud at the speed of light. The Hub is sleek, agile and becomes whatever your group needs to get the job done.

Screenshots

Cerner Message Center2 screens
The Hub.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Hub. at 90% against Cerner Message Center's 0%. The Hub. also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

The Hub. holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Cerner Message Center's written reviews are positive against 90% of The Hub.'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, The Hub. every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cerner Message Center versus The Hub.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCerner Message CenterThe Hub.
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (27 ratings)4.3 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.416.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB89 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCerner CorporationHubspring Health LLC

Customer experience

Cerner Message Center

All ratings27 ratings
Positive37.0%
Neutral18.5%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative87.5%

The Hub.

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cerner Message Center

No in-app purchases

None

The Hub.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cerner Message Center free?
Cerner Message Center is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Hub. free?
The Hub. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cerner Message Center or The Hub.?
The Hub. is rated higher. Cerner Message Center averages 3.0 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while The Hub. averages 4.3 from 17 ratings.
Do Cerner Message Center or The Hub. have ads?
Neither Cerner Message Center nor The Hub. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cerner Message Center or The Hub.?
Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, and The Hub. every 3 months. Most recently, Cerner Message Center was updated on November 5, 2026 and The Hub. on November 2, 2026.

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