Practitioner Engagement vs Real Time Notifications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Practitioner Engagement
Access patient medical history and information on the go with this tool for physicians and nurse practitioners. Securely view charts, review results, and provide e-signatures for orders to improve communication and decision-making in senior care.
- View patient medical history
- Provide e-Signatures for orders
- Access notification stream for patient changes
- Complete monthly order reviews
- Review lab and radiology results
- Mobile access to patient charts
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The PointClickCare Practitioner Engagement application provides physicians and nurse practitioners with anytime, anywhere access to information on long-term care patients in their care. Using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can securely and conveniently view your patient's medical history, leveraging access to the PointClickCare EHR platform, to help you make better decisions and improve overall communications with senior care homes. Key benefits include: - Provide e-Signatures for telephone and verbal orders, sign once for multiple patients - Keep up to date on important patient changes with the notification stream - Complete monthly order reviews - Review laboratory, radiology, and vitals results - Sign or create controlled substance orders (requires token device for 2 factor authentication) - Mobile access to patient charts for faster responses - Create notes or add follow-ups
Real Time Notifications
Receive instant alerts and keyword notifications from your EMR data. Customize which clinical alerts you want to see and filter notifications by payer. This companion app ensures you stay informed about critical patient information.
- Real-time clinical alerts
- EMR data keyword notifications
- Customizable alert preferences
- Payer-based filtering
- Companion app for Real Time Portal
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This is a companion application to the Real Time Portal, that notifies you when Real Time generates clinical alerts and keywords from your EMR data. Our application allows you to specify which alerts and keywords you want to see, as well as filter out residents by payer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Real Time Notifications at 5.0 against Practitioner Engagement's 3.2. Real Time Notifications also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). Practitioner Engagement's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 3). 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.
Real Time Notifications holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Practitioner Engagement has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Practitioner Engagement ships an update every 3 months, Real Time Notifications every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Practitioner Engagement | Real Time Notifications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PointClickCare | Real Time Medical Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
Practitioner Engagement
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In-app purchases
Practitioner Engagement
No in-app purchases
Real Time Notifications
No in-app purchases
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