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Thursday, April 14, 2011

World of Mobile Health

QxMD updates app at same time supporting medical research is published

In hopes of rapidly pushing new knowledge into clinical practice, mobile medical calculator developer QxMD has collaborated with a major journal and a research team to introduce an app based on new research at the same time the study lead presented the evidence at a conference.

Monday at the annual World Congress of Nephrology, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dr. Navdeep Tangri of Boston-based Tufts Medical Center presented a paper in which he discussed an equation he and colleagues developed to calculate the risk of renal failure and the need for dialysis in patients with chronic kidney disease. Right about the time Tangri was speaking, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the paper online and QxMD unveiled an update to its Calculate by QxMD medical calculator for the iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry platforms based on Tangri’s predictive model.

Knowing a patient’s age, gender and test results for estimated kidney function, urine protein, blood calcium, phosphorus, bicarbonate and albumin levels, the model helps determine the probability of kidney failure two and five years down the line for someone with Stage 3 to 5 chronic kidney disease, according to Tangri’s paper.

Dr. Daniel Schwartz, founder of Vancouver-based QxMD, said this was the first time a mobile medical app had been released simultaneously with the presentation of new medical research. Schwartz tells MobiHealthNews that he and Tangri wanted to speed the acceptance of this new model into the practice of nephrology. Keep reading....

http://mobihealthnews.com/10715/qxmd-updates-app-at-same-time-supporting-medical-research-is-published/

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