Blood Test Guide

No use! Doesn’t open both in iPad and iphone

My initial thought was that I’d be able to enter my lab results over time, find recurring problems, and share to a printer or as a pdf report. No such luck, so it’s back to my spreadsheet method.

Everything works out fine until it got crashed. Uninstalling it.

The first blood level I looked up was ferritin. Either the author doesn’t believe proofreading is necessary, or English is not his/her native language, and thus an editor is desperately needed. In the description, I found “ironis” instead of “iron is” repeated multiple times. It would be an understandable error if “ironis” was actually a valid word, however, no such word exists in the English language. That informs me that as the author typed, s/he ignored an entire page loaded with red-underlined misspelled words, and then just went on to make the next error. Here is a short example: “Ironis a mineral that our bodies need for many functions...” Throughout the ferritin page, the author fails to use proper spacing between words, like this: “Your body needs the right amount ofiron. If you have too littleiron, you may developirondeficiency anemia. Causes of lowironlevels include blood loss, poor diet, or an inability to absorb enoughironfrom foods. People at higher risk of having too littleironare young children and women who are pregnant or have periods. I have boldfaced the oddly strung together words in this short paragraph, and have italicized a phrase with rather clumsy wording. These errors are not outliers; the entire app is constructed this way. In addition to spelling errors, the author has posted not one, but TWO DIFFERENT minimum/maximum levels for each blood test. The titles in each range box read EXACTLY as follows: “Clinical Female Adult Range (after man...” “Clinical Female Adult Range (before m...” In both cases, the title abruptly stops — there is no endparend to the parenthetical phrase, just dead air, and there is no way that I could discover to see the rest of the line. The reader is left wondering if the wildly divergent values would have made sense with that information. It gets even more confusing when you consider the values in each of the “Clinical Female Adult Ranges” because they are so very different from each other. One claims the minimum to maximum normal ferritin range is: “12 mg/dL to 263 mg/dL”, but the other claims: “11 mg/dL to 122 mg/dL” is accurate! How can they both be correct? Perhaps if we had access to each box’s entire title it would make sense, but as is, I’m left with wondering if my current level of 153, which is smack dab in the middle of the normal range of one value really is normal since it’s well over the maximum

For me, videos are time consuming. I prefer text messages, text presentations and articles. The app dies not provide a choice. So far, this is my only complaint and i am still looking for a better app that will service my needs.

This is an useful app that serves as a reference - I would love to see a feature where I am able to upload my reports and see only the details of relevant parameters. Additionally if it keeps track of my records over a period of time, it would be perfect!

I loved the old version of this app. The updated version doesn’t show half the information and it freezes and closes the app. I’m deleting and will find another.

I started taking notes as I worked my way through the app, but soon realized these folks haven't hired me as their editor, proofreader or programmer, so I'm not going into detail here. Suffice it to say: If you create an iOS app, you should keep the platforms in mind; iPhones work in portrait mode, but iPads also work in landscape mode. Any app I use more than twice needs to work in landscape mode on my iPad. So this one is not long for my world. I found the graphics pretty but distracting, just due to the flashing movement, but I keep thinking of the many patients I've known who could not tolerate the sight of all those needles and all that blood. This app is for them, not for medical professionals. I really do love the intention here, and the basic foundation. But it needs professional help. Even the home screen on the iPad has a problem. The introductory paragraphs are at the bottom of the screen, in a text box which does not scroll, so this useful information just stops dead. And then

The easiest/best thing you could do to make this app popular would be to allow basic tracking of lab results. When I get a HbA1C, all I really want to know is how my results compare to history, to the public at large, and what that means. You've got the what that means part down, now just start with a basic spreadsheet to record results over time, maybe a simple line graph, and you're on your way. Second, the flash animation at the top takes up way too much real estate. Just show it on the opening page, or allow us to slide it upwards. Third, simple change, is navigational bars. When the text runs off the page, I haven't yet figured out how to scroll. Plus I used the app more than once before I figured out there was more than one card in each set. With those three minor changes, you'd add a star to this review and make yourself a mandatory app in my health workflow. Thanks!

Good info, but the ads often cover the text ... Makes it sort of useless.