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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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DaVita Integrated Kidney Care Achieves Three-Year NCQA Population Health Program Accreditation

DaVita IKC’s patient-centered approach helps the organization achieve the Triple Aim—to improve the patient experience of care, improve the health of populations, and to reduce the per capita cost of health care. This has led DaVita IKC to this top performer recognition as an NCQA-accredited provider.

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Transforming Kidney Care

Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics are being scaled to segment patients into several different areas, including risk for CKD progression and eventual need for dialysis. These models are used to develop effective and efficient integrated care delivery systems. Incorporating this technology into care delivery will be essential to helping reduce CKD rates and slow disease progression.

July 6, 2020
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Emphasizing Specialty Care with Value-based Care Models

There is a shift to move all sectors of health care away from traditional fee-for-service models that pay clinicians based on the number of patients seen or procedures performed to value-based care.

March 14, 2020
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Important Steps for Providers to Consider When Transitioning Patients from In-center to Home Dialysis

Each year, approximately 100,000 patients transition from chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).

March 2, 2020