Cerner Message Center vs CatchUpPeds
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.
CatchUpPeds
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. CatchUpPeds sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Cerner Message Center asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Cerner Message Center | CatchUpPeds |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cerner Corporation | Sven van Egmond |
In-app purchases
Cerner Message Center
No in-app purchases
CatchUpPeds
- Small coffee for developer$1.99
- Large coffee for developer$6.99
Questions
Is Cerner Message Center free?
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Do Cerner Message Center or CatchUpPeds have ads?
Which is updated more often, Cerner Message Center or CatchUpPeds?
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