Modern techniques in information management and communication are highly re
commended for physicians, taking care for nephrologic patients. Regarding o
f tight and persisting partnership between patient and physicians for long-
lasting histories of nephrologic diseases electronic communication grows up
to particular importance between physicians and patients. In this review o
riginal and basic internet information like hypertext and e-mail is extende
d to the modern face of the internet: physicians can find growing numbers o
f interesting medical, nephrologic portal sites, internet databases, online
services and various internet sites or homepages with often sophisticated
information retrieval used within the internet. Professionals in medicine w
on't be able to ignore modern information retrieval using the internet.