Fierce Health Technology April 30, 2021
Our increasingly connected digital world offers tremendous promise to better educate patients about their healthcare risks as well as provide steps they can take to prevent disease progression or manage a chronic condition. Nowhere is this opportunity greater than in our approach to chronic kidney disease (CKD).
New tools can help us completely reimagine CKD awareness and treatment—if we have the courage and dedication to put them into action.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 90% of Americans with CKD are unaware of their condition, because symptoms often go unnoticed until the disease reaches its advanced stages. In fact, about half of all patients requiring dialysis learn that their condition has progressed to this...