For academic residency programs

Your program's clinical guidelines — current, searchable, and on every phone.

Kanon gives residency programs one place to author, update, and distribute their own clinical practice guidelines — and prove the whole team has read the current version.

Built by a residency program director with 25+ years in GME · live in a day
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Your institutional protocols — not external references
Mobile-first, built for the point of care
Read-acknowledgement for accreditation & safety
No HIPAA burden — guidelines aren't patient data
The problem

Your protocols exist. Finding the current one shouldn't be this hard.

Most programs keep their guidelines in shared drives, aging PDFs, and binders. The result is predictable — and risky.

No one can find them

A resident at 2 a.m. shouldn't be hunting through folders for the protocol they need in the next ninety seconds.

They go stale

A faculty member updates a document and there's no version, no date, and no way to know who's still following the old one.

You can't prove they were read

When accreditation or risk management asks who has seen the current protocol, a shared drive has no answer.

Every program reinvents it

The knowledge lives in a few people's heads and walks out the door when they do.

What Kanon does

One library your whole team will actually use.

Everything a program needs to keep its guidelines current and in front of the people who follow them.

Author and update in minutes

A clean editor with embedded figures, tables, and references that link straight to PubMed or society pages. One administrator keeps it all current.

Found in seconds, at the bedside

Search-first and mobile-first. Residents and faculty open the app, type, and have the answer — no folders, no scrolling.

Proof your team has read it

Flag any guideline for acknowledgement. Track who's confirmed the current version — and re-acknowledge automatically when it materially changes.

Never a stale protocol

Versioning, effective dates, and review reminders mean everyone is always looking at the current guidance — and can see when it was last reviewed.

The right people see the right things

Role-based access for residents, faculty, APPs, and nursing — plus alumni, rotating students with auto-expiring access, and referring clinicians.

Share across your institution

Multiple programs at one hospital can choose to share guidelines with each other — controlled per guideline, always labeled by source.

Getting started

Up and running in a day, not a quarter.

No IT project, no procurement marathon. We provision your program and load your first protocols for you.

1

We provision your program

Claimed from the ACGME directory, so the names and structure are right from the start.

2

Import your roster

Bulk-import your residents, faculty, and team from a spreadsheet. Passwordless login — nothing to distribute.

3

We load your protocols

Our setup service enters up to 50 of your existing protocols for you, tagged the way your specialty thinks about them — so your team starts searching that day.

Built for GME, by GME

From someone who lived the problem.

Kanon was built by a former residency program director with 25+ years of experience in educational program management across both university and community hospital settings — and a front-row view of good protocols disappearing into shared drives. It's designed around how residency programs actually work, not how software companies assume they do.

"I wanted the protocol my residents needed to be one search away, always current, and provably read. Nothing did that — so we built it."
— Francis Nuthalapaty, MD · Former Residency Program Director · 25+ years in GME
Pricing

Simple, flat, and built for the academic year.

One price per program. Every user included. No per-seat metering, no surprise increases as your roster turns over.

Founding rate
$1,499
per program · per academic year
  • Unlimited users — residents, faculty, APPs, nursing, alumni
  • Every feature: authoring, search, acknowledgement, sharing
  • Setup service enters up to 50 of your protocols for you
  • Aligned to July 1 – June 30, with a 30-day grace window
  • Card-based — no purchase order or procurement required
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Reduced per-program rate when multiple programs at one institution join.
Questions

Good questions, answered.

No — those are external, evidence-based references. Kanon holds your institutional protocols: how your program does it. The two complement each other.
Those handle scheduling, evaluations, and accreditation workflows. Kanon does the one thing they don't: your clinical guideline library. It sits alongside them.
Guidelines aren't patient data, so Kanon sits outside PHI entirely — which removes the heavy compliance overhead most clinical software carries.
Your whole team, with role-based control. Graduating residents can keep access as alumni; rotating students get time-boxed access that expires on its own; and you can extend a curated view to referring community clinicians.
Any modern browser, on any device — nothing to install from an app store. Clinicians get a phone-optimized view they can add to their home screen for one-tap bedside access; program admins manage everything from a computer. Same app, reached through the browser.
About a day. We provision your program, import your roster, and enter up to 50 of your protocols for you — then your team starts searching.
The name comes from the Greek word kanón (κανών), meaning a measuring rod — and from there, a rule or standard. It's the root of the English word "canon," an authoritative body of accepted works. That's exactly what a clinical practice guideline is: the standard your program measures its practice against. "GME" is graduate medical education — the residency and fellowship world Kanon is built for.
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Bring your program's guidelines into one place.

See Kanon with your own protocols. We'll set up a short walkthrough with the founder.

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