Patient Halo vs Core Workflows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patient Halo
Secure and encrypted messaging for patients and healthcare organizations. Facilitates HIPAA-compliant communication, mirroring standard texting functionality. Requires a login from a healthcare professional to use.
- HIPAA-secure communication
- Encrypted messaging
- Patient-provider communication
- Works with Halo Platform
- Easy to use
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Patient Halo is for patients and healthcare organizations to easily communicate safely and securely (HIPAA-secure). It works with our Halo Platform to offer a full suite of compliant, easy, modern communications for smart phones. IMPORTANT: To use this app, you must get a login from your healthcare professional. Patient Halo is a full-featured texting app. It works just like normal texting, but is encrypted and secure. It has been created specifically to ease and improve how healthcare providers and patients communicate.
Core Workflows
This medical app synchronizes patient care and clinical progress information between mobile and desktop devices. It provides specialty-specific visual presentations of EHR data, enabling efficient team communication, rounds organization, and discharge readiness assessment. Smart notifications and secure messaging ensure timely information delivery for critical decision-making.
- Mobile-to-desktop synchronization
- Specialty-specific data visualization
- Team communication and coordination
- Smart notifications
- Secure messaging
- Patient status tracking
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Streamline patient care, clinical progress and team communication with this EHR-embedded application that synchronizes information from mobile-to-desktop. Rich, actionable EHR information is visually presented in a format unique to each specialty’s priorities. Clinical teams caring for a patient have what they need, when they need it, to organize rounds, convey discharge readiness, and conduct hand offs. As status and situations change, smart notifications and secure messaging ensure the right information is provided to act.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Patient Halo at 5.0 against Core Workflows's 3.9. Patient Halo also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Core Workflows's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 3). 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.
Patient Halo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 13 respectively.
Patient Halo ships an update every 2 months, Core Workflows every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patient Halo | Core Workflows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.9 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Halo Health, Inc. | TransformativeMed Inc |
Customer experience
Patient Halo
Core Workflows
In-app purchases
Patient Halo
No in-app purchases
Core Workflows
No in-app purchases
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