Home Health Care News January 26, 2020
Joyce Famakinwa

Over the years, it has become harder to ignore health care’s increasing shift toward the home setting and larger focus on social determinants of health. And now CVS Health is sharing a 2020 health care trends report that highlights some of the ways the company is taking this on.

One of the top trends identified by CVS Health is kidney-care innovation.

Roughly 30 million people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Further compounding matters, CKD is often undiagnosed.

CVS Health launched CVS Kidney Care in 2018 to help address CKD. A specific component of the program is home dialysis. Last year, the company began clinical trials for HemoCare, a device for at-home hemodialysis.

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