Cerner Message Center vs Doctors by FutureClinic
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.
Doctors by FutureClinic
This app allows licensed healthcare providers to manage patient encounters through secure, asynchronous chat. Review patient summaries, request information, prescribe medications, order labs, and build care plans with personalized video or audio signatures.
- Review patient encounters with summaries and transcripts
- Request additional patient information
- Prescribe and manage medications
- Order labs and track completion
- Build and send care plans
- Add personal touch with video/audio signatures
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Future Clinic Doctors is the provider app for physicians who practice on FutureClinic, a platform built around ongoing doctor–patient relationships delivered through secure, asynchronous chat. - Review encounters with the patient-confirmed summary, full chat transcript, highlights from the medical record, and attached photos, so you have context without digging through threads elsewhere. - Request more information when something is missing, with a clear path for patients to respond. - Prescribe and manage common prescribing tasks in a mobile-native flow - Order labs and follow the patient-side steps that complete the order (patients confirm details and collection options in their app). - Build and send your plan: assessments, prescriptions, patient-facing explanations, and workflows aligned with how FutureClinic delivers care. - Human signature™: record a short live video or audio clip to add a personal, accountable touch when it helps patients trust the plan. Important: - For licensed healthcare providers using an active FutureClinic provider account. - Not for emergencies. If someone may be having an emergency, they should use emergency services. - Care on FutureClinic is asynchronous; this app supports that model (not a replacement for in-person or live video care when those are indicated). Privacy: We take privacy and security seriously and design these tools for use in a HIPAA-aware healthcare environment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Doctors by FutureClinic at 100% against Cerner Message Center's 0%. Doctors by FutureClinic also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Cerner Message Center's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 7). 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.
Doctors by FutureClinic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Cerner Message Center's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doctors by FutureClinic's.
Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, Doctors by FutureClinic every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cerner Message Center | Doctors by FutureClinic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cerner Corporation | FutureClinic |
Customer experience
Cerner Message Center
Doctors by FutureClinic
In-app purchases
Cerner Message Center
No in-app purchases
Doctors by FutureClinic
No in-app purchases
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