PatientTouch Communications vs athenaCapture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PatientTouch Communications
This mobile solution connects frontline clinicians to patients, care teams, and EHRs to improve safety, quality, and efficiency. It supports medication administration, specimen collection, infant care, and real-time documentation of vital signs and procedures.
- Positive Patient Identification (PPID)
- Clinically contextual communications
- Medication administration workflows
- Specimen collection verification
- Infant care matching and safety
- Real-time vital signs documentation
- HIPAA compliant communication
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The PatientTouch® system is a Mobile Care Orchestration™ solution that enables you to orchestrate people, processes, and data in real time. By connecting frontline clinicians to their patients, care team, and existing EHR infrastructure, the PatientTouch system improves safety, quality, efficiency, and nursing satisfaction, while reducing costs. Ultimately, the PatientTouch system allows you to spend more time on direct patient care. The PatientTouch platform delivers Positive Patient Identification (PPID) workflows, clinically contextual communications, and configurable care interventions. With the PatientTouch system, you can leverage a single, easy to use device for: • Medication Administration—PPID barcode medication administration through intuitive workflows designed with clinical depth to ensure patient safety and adherence to the seven-rights • Specimen Collection—Enforce patient identification and care verification, document in real time, and optimize care team workflows to increase safety, accuracy, and efficiency of lab order processing and fulfillment • Infant Care—Ensure accurate mother and baby matching, safety of breast milk feedings, and accuracy of breast milk labeling • Care Interventions—View, collect, and document vital signs, I/O, hourly rounding, assessments, and clinical procedures in real-time • Communications—Facilitate care team collaboration through clinically contextual communications. • Facilitates patient assignment, alert management, and care delivery planning The PatientTouch system is fully HIPAA compliant and communicates directly to your existing HIS infrastructure via secured wireless networks. To use the PatientTouch application, your healthcare facility needs to license the PatientTouch system. The PatientTouch system includes an authorized server that is integrated with other hospital systems and the PatientTouch electronic mobile medication appliance (eMMA™) handheld. Innovated with the Apple iPod Touch® at its core, the eMMA handheld is designed for the clinical environment and meets the needs of hospital regulations. Learn more at patientsafesolutions.com
athenaCapture
Easily add image documentation to your athenaNet workflows directly from your smartphone or tablet. Securely capture patient photos, insurance cards, and encounter-specific images without storing them insecurely on your device.
- Image documentation capture
- Encounter embedded image capture
- Patient photo capture
- Insurance card capture
- Secure image transfer
- Direct integration with athenaNet
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The athenaCapture mobile app and its supporting athenaNet workflows provide a simple, secure way for users to add image documentation into athenaNet via smartphone or tablet device. Supported workflows currently include: - Simple image documentation capture - Encounter embedded image documentation capture - Patient photo capture - Insurance card capture Images pass directly from the point of capture — athenaCapture — to athenaNet, and are never stored unsecured, e.g., in a device camera roll, a memory card inserted into a camera, etc., without manual intermediate steps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PatientTouch Communications at 3.7 against athenaCapture's 2.9. PatientTouch Communications also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). athenaCapture's advantage is review sentiment (30% vs 0%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). 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.
PatientTouch Communications holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: athenaCapture has 51 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of PatientTouch Communications's written reviews are positive against 30% of athenaCapture's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PatientTouch Communications ships an update every 3 months, athenaCapture monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PatientTouch Communications | athenaCapture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better | 2.9 (51 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 29.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PatientSafe Solutions | athenahealth |
Customer experience
PatientTouch Communications
athenaCapture
In-app purchases
PatientTouch Communications
No in-app purchases
athenaCapture
No in-app purchases
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