Clinical IS Job Aid

Cerner Mobile Apps - PowerChart Touch Overview / Effective Date

Current Functionality
Topic:
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Facility: IU Health and Union Health IU Health Help Desk
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Audience: Providers
Cerner offers a suite of mobile applications (apps), referred to as PowerChart Touch, PC Touch, or PCT.

Overview: This document contains a brief overview of the PowerChart Touch mobile app as well as tips and tricks. It
also explains workflow processes that should be completed in the desktop version. The mobile apps are
intended to compliment, NOT replace, the desktop / laptop applications.

Available for Apple / iOS: PowerChart Touch, Message Center, Instanote, and Camera Capture
Available for Android: Message Center, Instanote, and Camera Capture (Tentatively, PowerChart Touch will be
available at a later date).

PowerChart Touch
PowerChart Touch is a Cerner mobile app that
enhances and compliments the Provider’s
workflow by enabling some aspects of:
A. Chart review
B. Order entry
C. Documentation
via mobile device.
While these are the primary functions, it is also
possible to:
D. Review schedules and patient lists
E. Search for patients
F. Perform a Provider Handoff
Review Schedules and Patients Lists and Search for Patients
From the Home screen or Patient Menu (this will default to either Schedule or
Patient List depending on which was last accessed):
A. Touch either Schedule (similar to the Outpatient Ambulatory
Organizer) OR Patient List (available to Inpatient providers) to view
assigned patients.
B. Within Schedule or Patient List, touch the patient’s name to open the
patient’s mobile chart.
C. Touch Search to find a patient not currently on the Schedule or Lists. It
is possible to search by Patient Information (name, DOB, MRN, and/or
phone number) or Encounter Information (FIN).

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Review Schedules and Patients Lists and Search for Patients (continued)
Note: Lifetime Relationship Patient Lists are NOT supported in PowerChart Touch. Provider Group Relationship
Lists ARE supported, but only display patients with relevant encounters.

Provider Handoff
This tool is available only from within Patient List. After opening the appropriate patient list:
Step Action
1 Touch the icon within the Patient Name band.
The Provider Handoff opens.
2 Touch Add New below each section to select, document,
or dictate.

3 Touch the X to return to the Patient List.

Review and Chart Data

The Review screen closely resembles a Workflow MPage with a Table of Contents and components. The Review
screen is used for completing chart review, actions, and documentation. The Review screen also contains a Media
section.
Note: There are fewer components than on the desktop / laptop version of the Workflow MPage. The components are
standardized (NOT specialty-specific).

Review Screen
Navigation
Touch:
 The Menu icon located in the top left to
access the Table of Contents or Components list
 The name of a component (i.e. Objective / PE) to
quickly move between components
 Off of Table of Contents to close it
 White downward facing arrow to the right of patient’s name in
the blue bar to open up patient information, including
demographics, care team, family contacts, insurance, and
preferred pharmacy
 Two horizontal lines above Review to return to the Patient Menu
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Review and Chart Data (continued)
Content
The app includes view-only, as well as interactive, components, including those available for free text entry or
dictation:
 Subjective / HPI
 Review of Systems
 Objective / PE
 Assessment / Plan
It is possible to use auto-text or dictation within free text components.
Note:
• Personal and Global Auto Texts found on the desktop are NOT currently available on the PowerChart
Touch app.
• Touch the microphone, say “What can I say?”, then navigate to the auto-texts menu to review a menu
of available auto-texts on PowerChart Touch.
• All auto-texts can be entered into free text components from the desktop. If doing so, be sure to choose the
correct drop down option or leave an underscore before accessing on a mobile device, as drop lists will not
function within PowerChart Touch.

To dictate:
Step Action
1 Touch title of component from menu to access.
2 Touch within the free text field to type or activate microphone button.
3 Touch microphone button to activate dictation.
The microphone button turns green, indicating it is on.
4 Dictate content as applicable.
Note:
• The voice command “Next field” may be used to move from one free text component or field to
the next.
• The command, “Insert _” (e.g., Insert Normal Physical Exam) may be used to add auto text
• “Next tag” can be used to move from underscore to underscore
5 Say “Save documentation” to save all documentation components at once.
6 Touch microphone button again or say “Microphone off” to end dictation.
The microphone button turns red, indicating that it is off.
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Review and Chart Data (continued)
Other Components
Problems
 To add additional problems and / or diagnoses: Touch + . Then touch radio button(s) to make this visit and /
or chronic.
 To review additional details: Touch problem name to open, view, and / or modify additional details.
Documents
The user’s personal notes are denoted by a black flag.
Modify a note:
Step Action
1 Touch the document to open full the document.
2 Touch Modify.
3 Add an addendum.
4 Sign.
The addendum appears at the end of the final document.
5 Touch the X to close the note.

Media Gallery
Update an image’s name:
Step Action
1 Touch Patient’s name to open the Camera Capture window.
2 Touch the Camera icon to access the phone’s camera to take a picture to be added to the patient’s chart.
3 Touch the red X icon to discard or the green checkmark icon to accept the image.
4 Update the image’s name, using the naming convention “anatomical site, thing of interest”.
5 Select the appropriate Content Type (similar to a Note Type).
6 Touch Save.
7 Touch Done to return to the Review screen.

Note:
• To review existing images: Touch image to open expanded view.
• To edit, add, annotate, or delete images: Open PowerChart on the desktop and access the Media Gallery
component.

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Review and Chart Data (continued)
Actions that can / cannot be taken within the Review screen:
 Medication Reconciliation cannot be completed from the mobile app. (Please note that medication refills and
order entry CAN be completed from the app.)
 Hospital Course, Patient Education, and Patient Instructions MUST be documented from the desktop (these
components are NOT currently available on the mobile app.)
 Review of diagnostic images MUST be completed from the desktop.
 Tagging is currently NOT available on mobile devices.
Create a Note within the Document Screen
Creating a Document within PowerChart Touch closely resembles Dynamic Documentation. As on the desktop, it is
recommended that Chart Review and content entry be completed through Review.
Once Chart Review and / or content entry is completed:
Step Action
1 Click the two horizontal lines to access the Patient Menu.
2 Choose Document.
3 Choose from the appropriate note template from Note Templates.
Note:
• It is recommended that Favorite Dynamic Documentation Note templates be set within the
Desktop application. These favorites will be available in the mobile app.
• Venue-specific hyperlinks to Note Types and Dynamic Documentation templates are NOT
available within the mobile app.
• All work performed in the Review screen populates on the note template. Double-check the content
and make any updates as needed.

4 Save the note.

5 With few exceptions, the recommendation is to always Sign the note from the desktop.
Note:
• As indicated elsewhere, it is NOT currently possible to use enhanced auto-text or to tag (including
clinical images) from the mobile apps.
• It is NOT possible to forward a note or send a Provider letter from the PowerChart Touch app.
Please save the note within PCT and then reopen it from Message Center on the desktop to
complete further actions.

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Desktop to Mobile Workflow Examples
Rounding / Visit
Pre-Rounding or Pre-Visit
A. Review patient’s chart in Workflow MPage on desktop / laptop
B. Add the Chief Complaint (Patient Friendly and Attending Service only)
C. Tag from Documents, Radiology Diagnostics, Labs, etc.
D. Update the Problem List
E. Add Personal and / or Global Auto-text into the free-text HPI, ROS, PE, and A&P components.
F. Save.

In Room or On Unit
A. Use either desktop / laptop or PowerChart Touch to add additional items to Problems through Review.
B. Enter Orders.
C. Document the HPI, ROS, PE, and A&P, adding to those if already tagged forward.
D. Update auto-texts or dictate if blank.
E. Save.

In Room and / or After Meeting with Patient

Same process as In Room or On Unit.

Post-Rounding or Post-Visit (If Time Allows)

A. Refresh desktop / laptop Workflow MPage to pull in HPI, ROS, PE, and A&P.
B. Complete Medication Reconciliation, if applicable.
C. Generate note (through hyperlinks at bottom of Workflow MPage).
D. Sign note (Save the note to start note in PowerChart Touch and finish later. Note will populate in Message
Center for signing and forwarding).
E. Forward note and / or send letters as appropriate.

On Call / Other
A. Open the patient’s chart. The note may be opened without a VPN connection.
B. Review labs and other chart data.
C. Write free-text and / or use voice recognition to document brief notes in Instanote.

Note: All images in this document were captured using an iPhone X on iOS 12.3.1, but overall layout and
functionality should be similar across other mobile devices and operating systems.

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