Home Dialysis Central

Home Dialysis Is Growing, Says Dr. Thomas Golper

At the Southwest Nephrology Conference in March, Dr. Golper said that the chances that patients will succeed on a home therapy will i... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
Nephrologist Article Calls for Additional Incentives to Drive More PD

Certain stakeholders were left out of the financial incentives to grow PD in the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) model, asserts two n... [Read More]
Posted 04/13/2020
Kidney Care Partners Call on Congress to Protect Patients from COVID-19

KCP is asking Congress and the Administration to protect vulnerable patients by ensuring that dialysis clinics have priority for e... [Read More]
Posted 04/13/2020

UVA Pilots Four In-Person Home Dialysis Clinic Visits Per Year

UVa nephrologists developed a pilot initiative to do quarterly instead of monthly in-person visits, after a recent decision by CMS to... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
COVID-19 Speeding Paradigm Shift to Home Dialysis

In an interview for Connecticut Public Radio, NKF President Dr. Holly Kramer says, “Home is the safest place for them [patients] to... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
Baxter Sharesource, Other Innovations Protect PD Staff and Patients

Mt. Sinai Hospital in East Harlem, NY, describes its innovative approach to home dialysis and monitoring, which began in March. The ... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020

Fresenius CEO Rice Powell on Lessons Learned From Covid 19

In a Washington Post story, Powell notes that Fresenius has been planning since January for the pandemic, and has been offering staff... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
Dialysis Industry Leaders Come Together to Fight Public Health Crisis

U.S. Renal Care, Inc., Fresenius, DaVita, and others are collaborating to support dialysis patients with COVID-19. The group pled... [Read More]
Posted 04/13/2020
Fresenius Telehealth Hub

Fresenius now offers a user-friendly telehealth solution to improve connection between patients and physicians. Citing fewer hospital... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020

Mom of Three Does PD 250 Miles Away from Her Doctor

Monitored with Baxter’s 2-way telehealth platform, Sharesource, Joanne is able to continue her peaceful, rural Nebraska ranch life ... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
Chuck Bowden Thrives with Daily Home HD

“Retirement” didn’t stick for Chuck—he volunteers and enjoys several hobbies and time with his family. Aft... [Read More]
Posted 04/13/2020
Techs Improve Outcomes for Home Patients

An abstract presented at the Annual Dialysis Conference reported on a program using dialysis technicians to help nurses deliver care ... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020

New Device in Testing May SAVE Failed Fistulas

Balloon angioplasty has been to open narrowing fistulas, but the narrowing often recurs. Now, a first patient has been enrolled in t... [Read More]
Posted 05/12/2020
Removing B2m with Nanobodies

Among those on dialysis, a build up in the blood of Beta-2 microglobulin (B2m) is responsible for potentially crippling dialysis-rela... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020
Shrinking a Qidni

Morteza Ahmadi, CEO of Quidni labs, aims to design a small blood purification device that will offer longer treatment times and ultim... [Read More]
Posted 03/16/2020

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