Cerner Message Center vs PQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
PQ
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The Pediatric Quality of Life and Evaluation of Symptoms Technology is designed for you to easily access your patients reports. We hope this will be a helpful tool in tracking patient reported symptoms and facilitating symptoms management. This app is specially designed for providers to view the reports generated for a patient, when patient answers any survey using patient app/web application. • How it works 1. Log in with proper credentials (provider's username and password) 2. User will see the dashboard with assigned patient list. 3. Click on patient card,generated patient reports will be shown in the report dashboard 4. To review the report, just click on it. • Benefits: 1. This is fastest way for provider to review the patient report. 2. Pediquest will support to improve Quality Of Life of patient in physical, psychological, social, school section.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PQ at 10.0 against Cerner Message Center's 17.4. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, PQ every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cerner Message Center | PQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cerner Corporation | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
In-app purchases
Cerner Message Center
No in-app purchases
PQ
No in-app purchases









