Laboratories at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have become the first in the country to use a diagnostic tool that calculates the risk of kidney failure in patients with chronic kidney disease. The next generation KFRE (The…
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Value-based kidney care is gaining momentum in the healthcare industry. Just in the last month, Humana contracted with Interwell Health for kidney care and Signify Health released a new chronic kidney disease evaluation. A…
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Value-based kidney care company Strive Health announced it signed a multiyear deal with Oak Street Health, a chain of primary care clinics geared toward the Medicare population to provide care to patients suffering from stage 4…
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Humana is now working with kidney care company Interwell Health for some of its Medicare Advantage members, the companies announced Wednesday.
Humana has about 17.1 million members, and 5.1 million are Medicare Advantage members. Cambridge,…
Kalium Health, a Cambridge University spinout developing an at-home blood potassium test, recently signed a major R&D partnership and has now gathered enough data to begin preparing for clinical evaluation. Kalium is developing an integrated…
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About 37 million people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, yet about 40% of people with severely reduced kidney function don’t know they have chronic kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease…
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What You Should Know:
– Today, Signify Health announced the addition of a new comprehensive in-home kidney health testing/evaluation as part of their diagnostic and preventive service offerings.
– This is Signify’s latest diagnostic offering for…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 05, 2023 – A new study found that although adults with depression benefitted from virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this result was independent of specific program components such as activity scheduling, functional…
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A Digital NHS Health Check that will deliver one million checks is to be rolled out across England from next spring, the government has announced today.The current NHS Health Check has helped to prevent…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 21, 2023 – Research from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of New Mexico found that the severity of common dialysis symptoms, such as low energy and pain, among chronic kidney…
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