ASRA Coags

ASRA has made a declaration by locking clinicians out of an app they already paid for until they now also pay a subscription fee: ASRA is a greedy, money-loving corporation that cares nothing about patient safety. Might as well re-brand as a subsidiary of United Healthcare. It costs next to nothing to publish an app that furthers patient safety; I made one myself as a resident. This bait-and-switch on paying customers, and locking patient safety information behind a subscription paywall is an absolute disgrace on the field of Anesthesiology; this only reinforces our patient’s worst ideas about us. Shame. Shame. Shame.

iOS now puts all app names in the custom autocorrect dictionary on iPhone. When you install this ASRA Coags app, it appears as “Coags 2.1” in your app menu. As a result, any time you type the number “21” in any app, iOS will try to autocorrect it to “2.1” because it thinks you are trying to type the name of this app. Try it… you’ll see I’m correct. Deleting the Coags app is the only way to get iOS to stop changing the number “21” to 2.1 in autocorrect. I’ve contacted the app developer previously. They are stubborn and refuse to remove the version number from the app name in iOS despite this problem. The version number is irrelevant anyway since iOS has automatically updated apps since version 6 or 7 of iOS. I delete the app and reinstall it about once a month to get info from it, then immediately delete it again.