Kidney patients often have a number of serious chronic health issues in addition to their kidney disease. Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s leading renal therapies company, has developed the KidneyTel® system to provide an integrated care solution to assist patients, their families and their providers in managing the full range of health issues that kidney patients face on a daily basis. The KidneyTel system will provide a key link in the creation of a “medical home” for the kidney patient, and will be an enabling technology for nephrologists and dialysis providers in establishing Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s) for the treatment of kidney patients.
“Dialysis is a life sustaining treatment for the kidney patient, however it is an episodic treatment typically provided three days a week. Support and telehealth monitoring of the dialysis patients’ health condition on non-dialysis days (and every day for the home dialysis patient) is a welcome area for improvement in current clinical practice. Every day attention is the standard of care we would all want for ourselves or a member of our family; and it is exactly what we can now provide with KidneyTel,” commented Robert Farrell, President, Integrated Care Management, Fresenius Medical Care North America.