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Forging the Future of Healthcare: On-Demand Webinars Highlight Key Innovations

Today, healthcare transformation is driven by new technologies and a renewed focus on proactive, holistic care — with an emphasis on creating access to crucial health resources. To explore these pivotal topics, DaVita joined a series of conversations with leaders from across the health care industry through HLTH webinars. These webinars underscore a collective commitment […]

DaVita’s Investment in AI-Powered Platform Signals a New Era for Chronic Care

As the U.S health care system grapples with a burgeoning chronic disease crisis, a recent webinar hosted by HLTH highlights how major healthcare providers are leveraging strategic investments and artificial intelligence (AI) to forge a new path forward. A leader in comprehensive kidney care, DaVita, is working with others in this movement, using its venture […]

GLP-1 Trends Informing Holistic Kidney Care

GLP-1s, once seen primarily through the lens of type two diabetes management, are now being recognized for their profound protective benefits for both cardiovascular and kidney health. Now, the healthcare community is leveraging evolving research to engage in a broad re-evaluation of how it manages costly chronic...

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DaVita CEO Emphasizes Need for Holistic Health Services During HLTH Panel

Last month, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez joined a panel at the annual HLTH conference to discuss the topic, “What’s Plaguing Our Health.” The conversation, moderated by A.G. Breitenstein,…

December 8, 2022
Corporate Responsibility Innovation

DaVita Germany Highlights Findings from Year One Pilot to Reduce Carbon Emissions

The health care sector worldwide is responsible for as much as 4.6% of total greenhouse gas emissions, which includes carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and others. In an effort to reduce its own…

November 29, 2022
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Evolving Clinical Research: CKD & Rare Disease Network Creates Opportunities for Greater Diversity, Participation

Clinical trials offer the opportunity to test new therapeutic treatments and advance care, but trials often hit logistical barriers. Because trials have typically occurred in a physical research…

October 25, 2022
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DaVita Clinical Research Finds Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplantation—But Not Transplant Referral

Kidney failure affects Black individuals at four times the rate of white individuals in the U.S.,[1] but fewer Black patients are put on kidney transplant waiting lists and even fewer receive…

July 27, 2022
Innovation Leadership

RPA Panel: DaVita Chief Transformation Officer Calls for Acceleration of Value-Based Models, Focus on Upstream Care

At the annual Renal Physicians Association (RPA) meeting in Dallas, Texas, March 24-27, DaVita chief transformation officer Misha Palecek spoke candidly about the nephrology community’s…

April 27, 2022