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Heart, Kidney & Metabolic Care: A Strategic Imperative for Health Systems
SGLT2 Inhibitors Could Play Role in Slowing Kidney Disease Progression
The Doctor Will See You Now: The Value of Human Connection in AI-Supported Medicine
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Heart, Kidney & Metabolic Care: A Strategic Imperative for Health Systems
For U.S. healthcare systems, clinical and financial stability can be achieved when we look beyond treatment options for individual disease states and instead take a more holistic approach that also addresses the pathological mechanisms that extend across multiple disease states. The American Heart Association definition of the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM syndrome), a systemic overlap of […]
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SGLT2 Inhibitors Could Play Role in Slowing Kidney Disease Progression
For years, kidney care has primarily focused on managing kidney failure. Now, new data is empowering a crucial clinical focus: preserving kidney function before kidney disease advances. A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine provides a compelling signal for care providers: When it comes to slowing chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression for people with […]
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The Doctor Will See You Now: The Value of Human Connection in AI-Supported Medicine
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to take hold across all industries, Adam Weinstein, MD, chief medical information officer for DaVita, highlights how new technological capabilities also help make the human connection more central to healthcare. Recently, a New York Times article explored the question of whether advancements to AI in medicine could reduce the value […]
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A Digital Guardian: AI-Powered Insights Bring Patients and Clinicians Closer
For approximately 80,000 Americans, home dialysis offers a sense of normalcy and stability amid many changes that inevitably come with a diagnosis of kidney failure. Home dialysis includes both peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD), differentiated options that allow patients to complete treatments with greater schedule flexibility. This not only provides a greater sense […]
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Forging the Future of Chronic Care: 3 Ways Tech is Helping Transform the Patient Experience
For decades, the story of kidney care was written in concrete and steel, measured by physical locations for care delivery. That story is being rewritten. Today, the frontier of kidney care focuses on how care providers leverage data, artificial intelligence (AI) and connected technology to meet patients wherever they are. This shift is helping redefine […]