Comparison

Cerner Message Center vs CatchUpPeds

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

CatchUpPeds

Features
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CatchUpPeds helps pediatricians and other healthcare professionals stay up to date with recent pediatric literature. The app searches PubMed and Europe PMC daily across a carefully curated selection of leading pediatric, related and general medical journals. Choose the topics, study designs and journals that matter to you and receive a personal overview of new articles. With CatchUpPeds you can: • Quickly review new pediatric publications • Filter by clinical topics and pediatric subspecialties • Select study designs and research phases • Open articles with a clear overview of objective, methods, results and conclusion • Read summaries in Dutch, English or Spanish • Search by title, author, abstract, topic, study design and journal • Save articles of interest • Receive notifications when new articles match your preferences Summaries are based solely on information in the article itself. CatchUpPeds does not add findings or alter reported numbers or results. CatchUpPeds is intended to help follow the literature and does not replace reading the original article or clinical decision-making.

Screenshots

Cerner Message Center2 screens
CatchUpPeds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cerner Message Center at none against CatchUpPeds's 2. CatchUpPeds's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. CatchUpPeds sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Cerner Message Center asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, CatchUpPeds every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cerner Message Center versus CatchUpPeds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCerner Message CenterCatchUpPeds
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCerner CorporationSven van Egmond

In-app purchases

None

Cerner Message Center

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

CatchUpPeds

One-time2
  • Small coffee for developer$1.99
  • Large coffee for developer$6.99

Questions

Is Cerner Message Center free?
Cerner Message Center is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CatchUpPeds free?
CatchUpPeds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cerner Message Center or CatchUpPeds have ads?
Neither Cerner Message Center nor CatchUpPeds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cerner Message Center or CatchUpPeds?
Cerner Message Center ships an update every 2 months, and CatchUpPeds every 3 days. Most recently, Cerner Message Center was updated on November 5, 2026 and CatchUpPeds on October 31, 2026.

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