My Kidneys & Me (MK&M), a digital health intervention delivering specialist health and lifestyle education for people with CKD, was developed and its effects tested (SMILE-K trial, ISRCTN18314195, 18/12/2020). 420 adult patients with CKD…
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Hypertension — or high blood pressure — affects about 120 million adults in the U.S. and can lead to heart disease, stroke and chronic kidney disease. There is also a higher prevalence of hypertension…
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To address challenges in screening for chronic kidney disease (CKD), we devised a deep learning-based CKD screening model named UWF-CKDS. It utilizes ultra-wide-field (UWF) fundus images to predict the presence of CKD. We validated…
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What You Should Know:
– Humana Inc., a health and well-being company, and kidney care management company Interwell Health are expanding their value-based care agreement to include Florida.
– The expansion will provide eligible Humana Medicare…
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Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mike Uchrin, Co-Founder and CEO of…
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Current DigitalHealth.London Accelerator company MyRenalCare has been shortlisted for the NHS Parliamentary Future NHS Award for their transformative work in chronic kidney disease management with the Wessex Kidney Centre, based at Portsmouth Hospital University…
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In an era where chronic kidney disease (CKD) is slated to become the fifth leading cause of mortality globally, the imperative for innovative approaches has never been clearer. There is a need for accessible,…
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What You Should Know: – Ubie, a global healthcare AI platform, and the American Kidney Fund (AKF), a leading kidney disease non-profit, have joined forces to improve early detection of kidney disease. – This…
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Hypertension, the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affects 1.39 billion adults worldwide and has a 46% uncontrolled rate. That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a…
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As Cohort Seven of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme comes to a close, we celebrate the remarkable achievements of our participating companies. In the spotlight today is Kidney Beam, an innovative online platform designed to…
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