When facilities operate their own acute dialysis operations and no longer enlist third parties to provide treatment, they save hundreds of dollars per session. Insourcing also enables hospitals to keep trained dialysis staff on hand full-time to actively ensure quality kidney care to their patients.
This lack of monitoring is a serious problem—both for patients and for the overall healthcare system. The data show that in a typical dialysis center, each patient will suffer an average of 1.7 access blockages per year.
A new independent study from Phyx Primary Care’s Innovation Lab points to measurable improvements in physician burnout, documentation efficiency, and key VBC metrics among primary care practices.
CVS Health's new HemoCare device would open up the at-home market for hemodialysis, which uses an artificial kidney device to perform the procedure and has traditionally been difficult to provide outside of a clinical setting.
Outset Medical just raised $60 million - and possibly more - to build out its at-home dialysis machine for patients with kidney failure.
Kansas startup Flow Forward Medical building a device that opens up the veins, making hemodialysis go more smoothly. It just raised a $5.7 million Series A.