The iPhone will enhance the way we take care of patients because it is a true point-of-service device. Touchcalc.com, a division of Interoperable Software, will make available to iPhone users many of the programs previously created for the Palm OS (like the MDRD GFR). These will be downloadable to the iPhone from sites like Apple's iTunes. This technology is amazing and promises to make life much easier for doctors and others who want great little applications at their fingertips.

Imagine software that is designed by doctors for doctors. It is fast, usable, secure, but most importantly fits your needs. Now add to this software developers who are cutting edge, have access to the latest hardware and software innovations and you have a winning team. Applications like HOSPITALS and SHIFTS are already being used, and saving doctors time, billing and coding expense. These will soon be available, and can serve as add ons to your existing software, provided it is written with the standards commonly used in medicine.

Hospitals

Software designed by RBF Medical Applications will enable doctors to sort patients from any computer or iPhone, viewing them by hospital and physician. Diagnosis and procedure codes can be entered at point of service, stored in encrypted formats, and viewed immediately by billing personnel. No more hospital sheets and lost sticky notes. Should dramatically improve collections while reducing office staff needed for mundane and repetitive work.

Newsdesk

This novel technology was developed by Zvi Boshernitzan and Brian Rosenthal, and is now owned and managed by Interoperable Software. It is the heart of The Nephron Information Center, and allows the user to aggregate news stories from virtually any site on the web. These stories are stored in a database and can be sorted and displayed on web sites. The citations can also have rss feeds. see demo

Kidney Associates

Kidney Associates is a Houston-based professional team comprised of eight nephrologists and a physician assistant. This team manages patients with various kidney disorders. KA manages patients throughout the Houston metroplex, and works closely with Davita. Kidney Associates manages patients who require dialysis and is instrumental in the evaluation and management of patients for kidney transplantation. The team also is active in clinical research trials. The Houston Vascular Access Center (HVAC) is a fully operational interventional access center owned and operated by Kidney Associates to help preserve and maintain AV fistulae and grafts.

wikikidney

The wiki is emerging as a major mechanism for developing giant collaborations of information. The wikipedia is a giant encyclopedia that is now more vast than the Encyclopedia Britannica. Since the content is open source and readily available it is subject to review, feedback and editing, and is amazingly accurate. This should also be true with a medical wiki, such as the kidneywiki established here using the same software. Qualified readers are encouraged to contribute to existing articles and to create articles of their own. The wikikidney help section will guide one not familiar with wiki writing. Creating and updating the content on this site give renal fellows a great opportunity to study a subject, expend and test their knowledge. If you would like a password, please contact mailto:fadem@bcm.edu.

Kidney Bog

A weblog or "blog" gives us a way to generate in sort of a journal, one's ideas and post them onto the web. Using technology known as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) these journal entries can be picked up as "feeds" by others interested in the same subject. Here distance and the instancy of communication diminish as a barrier to discussion. We are designed to bounce great ideas off of others, and it is the reflection of thought that gives it its dimension. Just as the bulletin board gives a dimension to the listserv, the blog gives a dimension to e-mail. Enjoy this blog, set it up as an rss feed to your site and feel free to comment back.

Photos, fademphotos.com and flickr.com/fadem

We have combined a love for photography with a easy and quick mechanism to upload and display photos. Although copyrighted, these photos can be downloaded and used as your desktop background. Here are some famous sites:

Lilly and Cass

Check out Lilly and Cass, an amazing online jewelry site from Stephanie Wise. A great place to purchase your gifts for anniversaries, birthdays, valentine's day and any other occasion!! This jewelry is definitely in touch with modern fashion.

Kidney Associates 30 years in practice

26 million Americans have kidney disease. I have been in practice since 1978 and have followed this field closely. Prevention and early management are the only ways that we can impact kidney disease. Kidney Associates is a clinical practice group in Houston that adheres to the highest practice standards and lives up to a deep commitment to helping patients with kidney disease.

Nephron Information Foundation

In the past three decades I have managed many many people with dialysis therapy. The majority of diseases leading to kidney failure do not progress rapidly when management starts early. Sadly, all too often these diseases are ignored until it is too late. I will continue the commitment to make people aware of kidney disease, and to the factors that lead to kidney failure - diabetes and hypertension. On nephron.org is a model education program I want to pilot with schools to introduce kidney disease awareness into the classroom. The Nephron Information Foundation has been established to help promote kidney disease awareness through the web, classrooms, conferences and CME education for physicians.